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Community Guidelines

Note: If your post is removed, it's never a personal attack but a step to maintain a respectful and engaging community in line with our guidelines.

• Stay on Topic
  • Comments should be relevant to the article or discussion at hand.
  • Posts that stray into unrelated topics like politics or religion will be removed.
• Respectful Interaction
  • Healthy debate is welcome, but personal attacks, harassment, or demeaning language toward others, including staff, are not permitted.
  • Hate speech or discriminatory language of any kind will result in a ban.
• Threatening Behaviour
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  • If a threat is deemed to be credible we will contact local law enforcement.
• No Self-Promotion
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  • Attempts to drive readers to third-party sites will be deleted.
• Prohibited Content
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  • Users doing so will be banned.
• Impersonation is Prohibited
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  • Users doing so will be banned.
• Privacy Matters
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• Spam Policy
  • Spam comments will lead to an immediate and permanent ban.
• Language
  • Comments should be in English to ensure moderators can effectively enforce these guidelines.
• Respect Moderation Decisions
  • Do not publicly discuss moderator actions. If you believe you have been banned in error contact Commentmoderation@futurenet.com
• Names
  • All of the above rules apply equally to names and using abusive language, fraudulently claiming to be staff or any other misuse of your display name will lead to a ban.

Our guidelines cannot cover every situation and our moderation team reserve the right to remove any comment at any time. The TechRadar team and Future PLC do not endorse the opinions and views shared by readers in our comment sections.

Pre-moderation: When dealing with a large volume of comments it’s impossible to handle them in real time. Comments may be pre-moderated due to their content, article settings or reports by other users. If you are finding yourself to be consistently pre-moderated then it is not targeted. How you are choosing to post is getting picked up by the system or reported by other users and can usually be fixed by following our guidelines or considering how others might read what you have posted.

Ban Appeals: If you wish to appeal a ban please contact Commentmoderation@futurenet.com. Please include the name of the site you are posting on, your username and respectfully explain why you believe the ban should be overturned.