Social Media Netiquette

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Social conventions and Netiquette

• Please treat other users like you would like to be treated.
• Remember that you are communicating with real people and not virtual personalities.
• You may use hard arguments to support your views, but do not personally attack anyone or engage in ad hominem arguments.
• Insults, sexual innuendos and sexist or racist comments of any type are forbidden.
• Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. You should therefore never try to impose your opinion on others.

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for further comments:

• Wrongful use as advertising space for websites or web services
• Machine-generated posts
• Offering goods or services (commercial or private)
• Insulting and derogatory comments
• Violations of third party rights, in particular of copyrights
• Announcements of politically oriented demonstrations
• Comments in a language which is not specified
• Inciting violence against persons, institutions or companies
• Pornography
• Racism and hate propaganda
• Comments which are irrelevant to the entry in question

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