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Publishing comments

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Due to repeated misuse of the facility to post links to external sites, it has been disabled.

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Members whose posts repeatedly contain one or more of the above, may be barred from publishing their opinions on all Economedia sites.


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- change the text of a comment.

- hide, close or delete topics, comments or parts of comments, if they do not contain any of the above types of content.

- give personal opinions or express a bias towards certain users or topics.
 

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