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-These terms govern use of the Internet forum at https://meta.discourse.org. To use the forum, you must agree to these terms with Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc., the company that runs the forum.
+These terms govern use of the Internet forum at https://meta.discourse.org. To use the forum, you must agree to these terms with Civilized Dicourse Construction Kit, Inc., the company that runs the forum.
-The company may offer other products and services, under different terms. These terms apply only to use of the forum.
+The company may offer other products and services under different terms. These terms apply only to use of the forum.
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Acceptable Use
Content Standards
Enforcement
+ Moderation
+ Recommendations
Your Account
Your Content
Your Responsibility
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Content Standards
+ You may not submit content to the forum that is off-topic, unprofessional, or otherwise disruptive to civilized discourse of the Discourse forum software and related topics.
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You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, or abusive.
You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
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The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.
-The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.
+The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of the law or these terms, flag the post for moderator attention if you have an account or e-mail us immediately.
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+Moderation
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+The company may moderate the forum according to its moderation policy at Content Moderation. The company may use all of the moderation tools of the forum’s software. Those tools are described at Discourse Moderation Guide - moderators - Discourse Meta.
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+Some moderation is done automatically. For information on automatic moderation, see “Does CDCK make automated decisions based on data about me?” in our privacy notice.
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+The company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its moderation policy.
+Recommendations
+The forum automatically recommends topics to you in a number of ways. The data used to make those recommendations, as well as your options affecting them, are described at Recommendations - site feedback - Discourse Meta.
Your Account
You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.
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Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the forum. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.
-Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.
+Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit.
-Content you submit to the forum belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the forum.
+Content you submit to the forum belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum, and to change it, according to these terms. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the forum.
When content you submit is removed from the forum, whether by you or by the company, the company’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from the company’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or the company itself, the right to share your content through the forum again.
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Either you or the company may end the agreement written out in these terms at any time. When our agreement ends, your permission to use the forum also ends.
-The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.
+The following provisions continue after our agreement ends: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.
Disputes
-California Law will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum.
+California law will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum.
You and the company agree to seek injunctions related to these terms only in state or federal court in San Francisco, California. Neither you nor the company will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.
-Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you and the company will resolve any Dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in San Francisco, California. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the company’s permission.
+Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you and the company will resolve any dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in San Francisco, California. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the company’s permission.
Any arbitration award will include costs of the arbitration, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and reasonable costs for witnesses. You and the company may enter arbitration awards in any court with jurisdiction.
General Terms
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Neither the exercise of any right under this Agreement, nor waiver of any breach of this Agreement, waives any other breach of this Agreement.
-These terms embody all the terms of agreement between you and the company about use of the forum. These terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the forum, written or not.
+These terms are all the terms of agreement between you and the company about use of the forum. These terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the forum, written or not.
Contact
You may notify the company under these terms, and send questions to the company, at team@discourse.org.
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The company may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the forum or your account page.
Changes
-The company last updated these terms on July 12, 2018, and may update these terms again. The company will post all updates to the forum. For updates that contain substantial changes, the company agrees to e-mail you, if you’ve created an account and provided a valid e-mail address. The company may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the forum.
+The company last updated these terms on 2024-04-08T07:00:00Z, and may update these terms again. The company will post all updates to the forum. For updates that contain substantial changes, the company agrees to e-mail you, if you’ve created an account and provided a valid e-mail address. The company may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the forum.
Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the forum.
We should be back up and running with the updated ToS soon. 
It’s genuinely appreciated.