Terms of use

This platform is run as a non-commercial project. By writing here you accept the following, and with it the rules of debate set out in the self-commitment.

You write on your own responsibility. Contributions are not checked before they are published, or not checked in full, and the operator does not adopt any contribution as a statement of their own.

Publication is final. A published contribution is a commit in the repository of its debate and, as a rule, cannot be withdrawn. This is meant to rule out dishonest tactics of debate, such as deleting one's own contributions once they have been refuted. Corrections and additions are written as an answer to yourself instead, see the FAQ. Removing a contribution is technically possible for the operator and can be asked for in exceptional cases.

Nothing unlawful. Content that is illegal in the European Union must not be published here.

Nothing that obviously damages this platform. Sexually explicit material is one example. What is meant, though, is all content whose presence would evidently or foreseeably discredit the project, even where that content is lawful. That decision is the operator's.

A private debate is not a guarantee of secrecy. Private means: not listed, and served only to its participants and to those they invite. The operator maintains that to the best of their ability, but cannot guarantee it.

The operator may remove content or restrict its visibility where it breaks these terms. Removing a published contribution (spam, say) partly rewrites the history of its repository: anyone holding an earlier copy can tell, and the reason is put on record. See the FAQ.

Report what breaks these terms. Every contribution carries a report symbol (an exclamation mark in a hexagon) for this; a message to the operator works as well, see the contact page.