Prohockeynews.com Registered User Policy
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• Respect one another. Debates are great, but attacks are not. Please refrain from posting offensive, obscene, threatening or abusive comments. If you personally attack other readers or writes, you comment(s) and responses to those comments may be removed from the discussion. Attacks create a hostile environment that discourages discussion. You are fully responsible for libelous or defamatory comments.
• Hate speech will not be tolerated. Comments containing racism, homophobia, sexism or any other form of hate-speech have no place on our site.
• Keep you language in check. Vulgar posts may offend our readers.
• Stay on topic. Comments should be related to the topic discussed in the associated article or column. In order to keep the conversation relevant, off-topic comments may be edited or removed.
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• Spam and commercial content will be removed. We do not welcome comments containing copy used for commercial purposes or for soliciting funds. If we see them, we reserve the right to remove them.
• Readers may “report” concerns about other reader comments. If a reader reports a concern, moderators will endeavor to review that concern as soon as possible. This may take a few days although we hope to review comments more quickly. We do not remove every comment that has been reported and cannot respond individually to every report.
• Stop and think before you comment. We won’t remove comments because a reader or writer regrets a post. Please remember that these comments are searchable and a comment history has a long life on the web.
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• Repeated abuse of our guidelines may lead to commenting privileges being suspended.
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