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On Patch we pride ourselves on offering a great place for people to engage with their community. However, sometimes during heated discussions it can lead to heated language on the site.

In our terms of service it details the acceptable usage of language on the site.

The terms include not posting content that is:                

• is defamatory, abusive, obscene, profane or offensive;

• infringes or violates another party's intellectual property rights (such as music, videos, photos or other materials for which you do not have written authority from the owner of such materials to post on the Service);

• violates any party’s right of publicity or right of privacy;

• is threatening, harassing or that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

• promotes or encourages violence;

• is inaccurate, false or misleading in any way;

• is illegal or promotes any illegal activities;

• promotes illegal or unauthorized copying of another person's copyrighted work or links to them or providing information to circumvent security measures;

• contains “masked” profanity (e.g., F@&#)

• contains software viruses or
any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or
limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or
telecommunications equipment; or

• contains any advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation.

We encourage you to email your editor (which can found on the top left of the homepage) when these terms are violated.