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The Basics of Our Community
Regardless of whether you’re a beginner or an expert, your questions and participation are valid and much appreciated. Please be sure to follow these general rules of posting:
- Search before you post and keep posts relevant to the forums. This helps us keep all related info in the same area.
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Moderator Rights and Responsibilities
We have a team of volunteer moderators in charge of monitoring the discussions. Their main responsibility is to oversee that all members participate in accordance to our terms of use and overall community guidelines. To this end, The Praxis Project grants its moderators the right to edit and delete posts that they consider contrary to the forum guidelines or otherwise illegal, harmful or inaccurate. We will attempt to conduct these activities in a timely fashion; however, The Praxis Project is not responsible for delays in editing or removing posts, or for failure to do so. If you see something that you think needs deleting, please let us know!
Moderators may also take actions they deem necessary to limit user access to the discussions. For instance, a moderator can, at his or her sole discretion, ban a user from the discussions either temporarily or permanently and without warning, depending on the seriousness of the violation.
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