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Generally though, if unsure, it is best to give the benefit of the doubt and allow the registration, rather than rejecting legitimate users.<br>
Generally though, if unsure, it is best to give the benefit of the doubt and allow the registration, rather than rejecting legitimate users.<br>
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If a user breaks one of the forum rules, some judgement on how to deal with it will be required. However, the following is recommended:
 
* New users may not be aware of the forum rules, so link them to the rules indicating the one that they are violating.
TODO: Explain how to ban a user properly; how to deal with spam; ...
* If a user persists in breaking a rule, then it is possible to "give them a warning" by setting this in their user account settings.
* If the user still persists or has accumulated three warnings, then disabling their account i.e. banning them is probably warranted.
* Locking threads:
** Any thread which is violating a forum rule in of itself i.e. asking for non-freeware game download sites etc. should have a message linking the rule and then be locked to prevent further posts.
** Locking threads should be used sparingly, but is sometimes required i.e. if a discussion has decended to a flamewar or similar.
** In all cases, a message should be posted prior to locking explaining why this has occurred.


== How to triage bug reports ==
== How to triage bug reports ==
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