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Warnings are kept on your profile for 18 months. If there are no new incidents with your profile after 18 months, your previous violations will be removed from your record. However, if you violate another rule within 18 months, all violations will stay on your record for a further 18 months.

New profiles younger than 30 days are considered on probation and our admins reserve the right to permanently remove them for any violation of the rules below, regardless of the criteria for normal profiles.

GROKIO COMMUNITY CONDUCT RULES

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We allow Users to include such appeals in the body of their profile or in conversations in private notes (though not if those notes are spamming). We encourage users in need to talk to someone first, get to know each other and let them offer to help.

Attempts to circumvent this rule, for example by posting subtle requests or referring users to one's profile (where there is a link to an Amazon wishlist), as well as subtle requests presented as “jokes” are considered violations.

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