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At 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. When these terms are violated, we encourage you to flag comments by clicking the "Flag as inappropriate" words at the top-right corner of the comment box.

Please flag any content that:              

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• 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);

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• 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.


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