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2) Language which is disrespectful of others’ ethnicity, gender, and so on will not be tolerated.

3) Anything which can be said with profanity can be said more precisely and elegantly without it.

4) We reserve the right to remove comments deemed to violate these guidelines, although we’ll try to be generous in our estimation of your intent.