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e. Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure our comment system is not disrupted or abused in any way.

f. We reserve the right to ban anyone who wishfully violates the comment rules, as commenting on our posts/articles is a privilege and not a right.