Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Community Rules apply across Epic’s ecosystem
These standards apply to all users of Epic’s games, services and environments. The listed examples are not exhaustive: conduct is not necessarily acceptable just because it is not specifically mentioned.
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Our Community Rules apply to all users of Epic’s games, services, and environments. These standards are a guide on how you should interact when inside the Epic Games ecosystem. We included some specific examples below, but just because something isn’t specifically called out below doesn’t mean it’s OK.
Qualifications & exceptions
The examples do not exhaust the prohibited conduct.
Other Epic agreements also contain applicable rules
The Community Rules explain interaction standards alongside rules in Epic’s Terms of Service and other agreements. This source does not supply those other agreements’ terms.
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The Epic Terms of Service and other agreements contain rules that apply to your use of Epic’s services, so some of these rules may look familiar.
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The additional obligations in those other agreements are not supplied here.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
Violations can lead to a permanent account ban
Violating these rules can result in action against your account, up to a permanent ban. Epic chooses the action case by case using severity, repeat offending and other factors; options include warnings and loss of social features such as voice chat or adding friends. A violation does not automatically mean a permanent ban.
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If you violate these rules, however, it can result in action against your account all the way up to a permanent ban.
The type of action we’ll take for a particular violation of these rules is determined on a case-by-case basis. We’ll look at severity, whether you’re a repeat offender, and other factors. Action taken can be anything from a warning for less severe offenses, a loss of access to social features such as voice chat and adding friends, or all the way up to a permanent account ban.
Qualifications & exceptions
Action depends on severity, repeat offending and other factors; warnings and social-feature restrictions are also possible.
Do not share or threaten to share other people’s personal information
Across Epic’s games, services and environments, you may not share other people’s personal information, except display names, or threaten to expose information such as alternate account names, real names or real-world locations. Epic strongly encourages you not to share your own information; that recommendation is distinct from the prohibition concerning others.
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You’re never allowed to share other people’s personal information other than display names, and we strongly encourage you not to share yours. Sharing or threatening to share someone’s alternate account names, real-world location, real name, etc. is not allowed.
Our Community Rules apply to all users of Epic’s games, services, and environments.
Qualifications & exceptions
Display names are excepted from the prohibition on sharing other people’s information.
Not sharing your own information is strongly encouraged.
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qualified by (model-proposed): Do not share your own or anyone else’s account information — The general personal-information rule strongly discourages sharing your own information, while the account-security rule expressly forbids sharing your own account information. The stricter rule concerns account information, not every kind of personal information.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Hate and discrimination are prohibited
Epic does not tolerate hate or discrimination. Users must not demean, marginalize, belittle or use hateful language against other users or groups. The inclusive scope names race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability and national origin, as well as other groups.
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Epic does not tolerate any form of hate or discrimination.
The Epic ecosystem welcomes diversity in race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, and other groups. Don’t demean, marginalize, use hateful language against, or belittle other users or groups.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Predatory, threatening and abusive interactions break the rules
When chatting, playing or creating, users must respect others. Interactions that are predatory, threatening, intimidating, demeaning, derogatory, invasive of privacy or abusive violate the rules.
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Respect other people - when chatting, playing or creating. Interacting with others in a way that is predatory, threatening, intimidating, demeaning, derogatory, invasive of privacy, or abusive is against the rules.
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Applies while chatting, playing or creating.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Do not impersonate other people
Users must not impersonate anyone, including players, streamers, celebrities, government officials or Epic employees. The source specifically rejects pretending to be someone else to deceive or defraud others.
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Don’t impersonate other players, streamers, celebrities, government officials, Epic employees, or anyone else.
Pretending to be someone else in order to deceive or defraud others is not okay.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Cheating, griefing, teaming and exploiting bugs are forbidden
Players must play fairly under the game’s rules. Epic prohibits cheating, griefing, teaming and exploiting bugs or glitches, and also prohibits promoting or advertising known cheats, bugs or exploits. If you find an exploit, the rules direct you to report it through the linked Epic help route.
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Play fairly and within the rules of the game. Don’t cheat, grief, team, or exploit bugs and glitches. Don’t promote or advertise known cheats, bugs, or exploits.
Do not participate in or encourage dangerous or illegal community activity
The ban covers participation and encouragement within the community. Examples include gambling, illegal drug use, phishing, human trafficking, prostitution, doxing, swatting and content glorifying or inciting violence.
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Don’t participate in or encourage illegal or dangerous activities within the community, including gambling, illegal drug use, phishing, human trafficking, prostitution, doxing, swatting, or sharing content that glorifies or incites violence.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to activity within the community; the examples are not exhaustive.
If you see something putting other players at risk, the rules direct you to use in-game reporting, naming Fortnite and Rocket League, or contact Epic’s player support team.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Scams and trading accounts or personal information are prohibited
Users must not take advantage of fellow players through scams or deceptive practices. The listed prohibited practices include seeking account information and buying or selling accounts or personal information.
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Do not take advantage of fellow players. Scams or deceptive practices are prohibited, including seeking account information, and buying or selling accounts or personal information.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
All content must comply with the separate Content Guidelines
Content, communications and activity in Epic’s ecosystem should not prevent others from having positive experiences. All content must comply with the linked Content Guidelines, whose detailed requirements are not supplied in this Community Rules source.
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Content, communications, and activity in the Epic ecosystem shouldn’t keep others from having positive experiences. All content must follow the Content Guidelines.
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The linked Content Guidelines are not supplied here.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Child sexual exploitation or abuse is prohibited
Epic prohibits child sexual exploitation or abuse content and activity on its services. This covers content or activity harming or threatening to harm a child through sexual exploitation, trafficking, extortion, grooming or abuse. The source defines a child as “anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority)”; it does not explain how the alternative age applies when different.
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Epic prohibits any child sexual exploitation or abuse (CSEA) content or activity on its services.
CSEA refers to any content or activity that harms or threatens to harm a child through sexual exploitation, trafficking, extortion, grooming, or abuse. A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content and activity on Epic’s services.
The child definition states under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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The source does not specify which threshold controls where the legal age of majority differs from 18.
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defines (model-proposed): Creating, requesting or sharing child sexual abuse material is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA definition supplies the child-age wording for the abuse-material prohibition; it does not resolve which threshold controls when the legal age of majority differs from 18.
Creating, requesting or sharing child sexual abuse material is prohibited
The prohibition covers visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor, including self-generated material and highly realistic digital or AI-generated content. Creating or requesting it is prohibited as well as sharing it. The surrounding child definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority without resolving differences between those thresholds.
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Prohibited actions include creating, requesting, or sharing content that contains:
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), which is child pornography. Child pornography is any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor, including self-generated CSAM and highly realistic-appearing digital or AI-generated content.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
Includes self-generated material and highly realistic digital or AI-generated depictions.
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The surrounding definition does not resolve differing ages of majority.
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defined by (model-proposed): Child sexual exploitation or abuse is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA definition supplies the child-age wording for the abuse-material prohibition; it does not resolve which threshold controls when the legal age of majority differs from 18.
Content sexualizing children to promote exploitation is forbidden
You may not create, request or share content that sexualizes children in a way that promotes or encourages their sexual exploitation. The examples include sexually arousing behavior or suggestive positioning, including deliberately emphasizing clothed intimate body parts. The surrounding definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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Prohibited actions include creating, requesting, or sharing content that contains:
Sexualization of a minor, which is content that sexualizes a child in a way that promotes or encourages the sexual exploitation of children. Sexualization includes depictions of a child engaging in behavior that is intended to be sexually arousing or positioned in a way that is sexually suggestive (e.g., intentionally emphasizing clothed intimate body parts like breasts to draw attention to those parts).
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
Includes suggestive depictions even where intimate body parts are clothed.
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
Advertising or soliciting a child for commercial sex is prohibited
The prohibited content includes child trafficking: advertising or soliciting a child for a commercial sex act. An exchange of any thing of value for sexual activity counts, including money, food, drugs or a place to stay. Creating, requesting or sharing such content is prohibited. The child definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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Prohibited actions include creating, requesting, or sharing content that contains:
Child trafficking, which is advertising or soliciting a child for a commercial sex act. A commercial sex act is where a person gives or receives a thing of value (e.g., money, food, drugs, a place to stay) in exchange for sexual activity.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
A thing of value includes non-cash benefits.
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
Contacting or befriending a child for sexual purposes is prohibited
The ban on predatory behavior includes contacting, talking with or befriending a child with the intent to ask for or offer sexual contact or share content for sexual purposes. The surrounding definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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This also includes predatory behavior towards children, like:
Child grooming, which is contacting, talking with, or befriending a child with the intent to ask for or offer sexual contact or share content for sexual purposes.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
Qualifications & exceptions
The specified sexual intent is part of the definition.
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
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defined by (model-proposed): Child sexual exploitation or abuse is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA provision defines the child scope of grooming; grooming separately requires the stated sexual intent.
Threatening or blackmailing a child over sexual images is prohibited
Prohibited predatory behavior includes sextortion: threatening or blackmailing a child over the possibility of accessing or sharing nude or sexual images of them. The surrounding child definition uses under 18 or the legal age of majority.
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This also includes predatory behavior towards children, like:
Sextortion, which is threatening or blackmailing a child with the possibility of having access to or sharing nude or sexual images of them.
A child is defined as anyone under 18 years old of age (or the legal age of majority).
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The source does not resolve differing ages of majority.
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defined by (model-proposed): Child sexual exploitation or abuse is prohibited — The surrounding CSEA provision supplies the child definition for the prohibition on threats or blackmail involving sexual images.
Epic reports discovered child sexual exploitation and abuse content to NCMEC
When Epic discovers content containing child sexual exploitation and abuse, it says it reports the content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This statement does not promise that Epic detects every instance.
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Upon discovering content containing child sexual exploitation and abuse, Epic reports it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
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Reporting is triggered by Epic discovering such content.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Content or behavior directed at minors must not put them at risk of harm
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm. The listed restrictions extend to content or behavior that requests, instructs or promotes harmful activities. The specific examples do not exhaust the general ban.
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Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to content or behavior directed to minors.
Do not promote eating disorders or negative body image to minors
The child-safety rule prohibits content or behavior directed to minors that requests, instructs or promotes eating disorders or negative body image. This includes dangerous weight-loss or weight-management behavior and belittling a child’s body type. A weight-management behavior is dangerous if likely to create a significant immediate or long-term health risk, with anorexia and bulimia given as examples.
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Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Eating disorders and negative body image, which includes dangerous weight-loss or weight-management behaviors or belittling a child because of their body type. A weight-management behavior is considered dangerous if it is likely to create a significant and immediate or long-term health risk (e.g., anorexia, bulimia).
Qualifications & exceptions
Dangerous weight-management behavior involves likely significant immediate or long-term health risk.
Do not promote dangerous activities or challenges to minors
The child-safety rule covers requesting, instructing or promoting dangerous activities and challenges through content or behavior directed to minors. This includes depictions of real-world activities with visible or imminent serious physical harm, or activities likely to cause serious physical harm if imitated.
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Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Dangerous activities and challenges, which includes portraying activities in the real-world that involve visible or imminent serious physical harm or if imitated would likely lead to serious physical harm.
Qualifications & exceptions
Includes likely serious physical harm if the activity is imitated.
Do not promote drugs, alcohol or other unsuitable substances to minors
The child-safety rule prohibits content or behavior directed to minors that requests, instructs or promotes drugs and alcohol. Its examples cover illegal, prescription and over-the-counter drugs; alcohol; tobacco; synthetic nicotine products such as vapes and E-cigarettes; and other regulated substances unsuitable for children.
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Drugs and alcohol, which includes illegal drugs, prescription and over-the-counter drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, synthetic nicotine products (like vapes and E-cigarettes), and other regulated substances not suitable for consumption by children.
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Do not promote sexual products or services to minors
The child-safety rule prohibits content or behavior directed to minors that requests, instructs or promotes sexual products or services. Examples include sexual aids or guides, sex-related entertainment and escort services.
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Sex products and services, which includes sex products (e.g., sexual aids or guides) and sexual services (e.g., sex-related entertainment and escort services).
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Content or behavior directed to minors must not request, instruct or promote suicide or self-harm. The examples expressly include sharing or promoting plans for physical self-harm.
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Suicide and self-harm, which includes sharing or promoting plans for physical self-harm.
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Do not target children with interactions that endanger their physical safety
The child-safety rule covers interactions targeting a child that endanger their physical safety. Examples include arranging a face-to-face meeting or luring a child off-platform to chat in order to subject them to harm. The example’s harmful purpose matters; this wording is not a blanket ban on every off-platform conversation.
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Interactions targeted at a child that endanger their physical safety, such as planning to meet with a child face-to-face or luring a child off-platform to chat, in order to subject them to harm.
Epic does not allow content or behavior directed to minors that may put them at risk of harm.
This includes content or behavior that requests, instructs, or promotes:
Qualifications & exceptions
Meeting and off-platform examples are tied to the purpose of subjecting the child to harm.
A permanent ban may cost you games, virtual items and account balances
Epic chooses sanctions case by case, taking severity, repeat offending and other factors into account; possible actions range from warnings and social-feature restrictions to permanent bans. If your account is permanently banned, you may lose all rights to games, virtual items, account balances and other items you earned or bought. The source states a possible loss, not an automatic loss in every case.
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The type of action we’ll take for a particular violation of these rules is determined on a case-by-case basis. We’ll look at severity, whether you’re a repeat offender, and other factors. Action taken can be anything from a warning for less severe offenses, a loss of access to social features such as voice chat and adding friends, or all the way up to a permanent account ban.
If your account is permanently banned, you may lose all rights to games, virtual items, account balances, or other items that you may have earned or purchased.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sanctions are chosen case by case using severity, repeat offending and other factors.
Potential loss includes both earned and purchased items.
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qualifies (model-proposed): Violations can lead to a permanent account ban — A permanent ban is one possible case-by-case sanction; the consequences provision adds that such a ban may remove rights to earned or purchased games, items and balances.
If you have multiple accounts, Epic may take action against all of them under the consequences provision. It does not promise that action stays limited to one account.
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If you have multiple accounts, we may take action against all of your accounts.
If you encounter a player who does not respect the Community Rules, Content Guidelines and other players, you can use in-game reporting. This page supplies a reporting route but does not specify the outcome of a report.
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If you encounter a player not respecting the Community Rules, Content Guidelines, and other players, you can report them via in-game reporting.
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Available when you encounter the described conduct.
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A particular report’s outcome is not specified here.
The linked Content Guidelines text is not supplied here; its detailed prohibited content cannot be established from this page.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
You can block someone even if they have not violated the rules
If you meet someone you do not like who is not violating the Community Rules, you can block that person. Rule-breaking is not required for this personal blocking option.
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If you meet someone you don’t like but aren’t violating the Community Rules, you can block the person.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Do not share your own or anyone else’s account information
Epic instructs users to keep account information safe and private and not share their own or others’ account information. It warns that giving account access creates risk, advises suspicion of offers that seem too good to be true, and says there is no such thing as free V-Bucks.
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Keep account information safe and private. Giving access to your account puts you at risk. If something seems suspicious or too good to be true, it probably is. There’s no such thing as free V-Bucks. Do not share your account information or the account information of others.
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qualifies (model-proposed): Do not share or threaten to share other people’s personal information — The general personal-information rule strongly discourages sharing your own information, while the account-security rule expressly forbids sharing your own account information. The stricter rule concerns account information, not every kind of personal information.
Security & Safeguards · Procedure
Epic points to separate moderation and account-security resources
For more detail on content moderation, Epic directs users to its Safety and Security Center. For ways to protect yourself and information on Epic’s current safety measures, it points to an account-security FAQ. Those linked pages are not supplied in this source, so their specific practices are not established here.
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For more information about our content moderation practices, please visit our Safety and Security Center.
When it comes to safety within the Epic ecosystem and staying secure we believe in providing you all the tools necessary. You can find a full set of all the things you can do to better protect yourself and what we currently do to keep you safe in our FAQ.
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Specific moderation practices and security measures on the linked pages are not supplied.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
Account management has a Parental Control hub
Epic directs people seeking information about moderating their child’s playtime or interactions to the Parental Control hub in account management. This source does not describe the individual settings or guarantee a particular control’s effectiveness.
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If you are curious about Parental Controls and how you can moderate your child’s playtime or interactions within Epic Games, head over to our Parental Control hub within account management.
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The individual parental-control features and limits are not supplied here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice
The Community Rules may change over time
Epic says the rules are not final and may change. Users are told to check back regularly to stay current, and the text rejects not knowing the rules as an excuse. It does not specify an advance-notice period or a change-notification method in this passage.
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The Epic Community Rules are not final and may change over time, so make sure you check back regularly to stay up to date. “But, I didn’t know…” is not a good excuse.
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No advance-notice period or notification method is specified in this passage.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
Additional linked resources address content, Fortnite developers and Rocket League
The page directs readers to the Epic Games Content Guidelines, Fortnite Developer Rules and Rocket League Code of Conduct as additional resources. Listing these links does not supply their detailed terms or establish that every developer-specific obligation applies to ordinary players.
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In addition to our Community Rules, check out these additional resources: