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1. Banned/Suspended Users 1 2 3 4 39

   By swansont, April 8, 2008
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   • swansont
   • 13 hours ago

2. Policy on AI/LLM use on SFN

   By swansont, April 19, 2024
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   • swansont
   • April 19, 2024

3. Science Forums Etiquette 1 2 3

   By Cap'n Refsmmat, January 30, 2005
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   • swansont
   • February 21, 2023

4. URL shorteners

   By swansont, March 28, 2022
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   • Peterkin
   • March 29, 2022

5. How to contact an Admin or Moderator

   By blike, July 11, 2004
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   • swansont
   • February 13, 2022

6. Members in the Mod Queue

   By hypervalent_iodine, January 6, 2016
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   • swansont
   • February 8, 2022

7. Serial abusers of the reputation system

   By hypervalent_iodine, October 15, 2018
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   • hypervalent_iodine
   • October 16, 2018

8. Increased spam - working on solution

   By CaptainPanic, June 5, 2013
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   • Phi for All
   • May 11, 2018

9. Spam Private Messages

   By imatfaal, March 18, 2017
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   • imatfaal
   • March 19, 2017

10. Video Post Policy

    By swansont, September 27, 2013
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    • swansont
    • January 4, 2014

11. UK Online Safety Act: impact on SFN

    By swansont, March 11
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    • iNow
    • March 12

12. Too many tangents (bots, trolls and socks, oh my!)

    By swansont, March 4, 2023
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    • Meilos
    • November 24, 2023

13. Privacy notice + downtime on Tuesday 11th April 1 2

    By Dave, April 8, 2023
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    • Phi for All
    • July 8, 2023

14. Coronavirus / COVID-19 posts

    By hypervalent_iodine, March 21, 2020
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    • exchemist
    • June 12, 2022

15. Updated to latest forum software 1 2

    By Dave, February 13, 2021
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    • Dave
    • August 18, 2021

16. Rule 7 update

    By hypervalent_iodine, July 9, 2020
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    • hypervalent_iodine
    • January 7, 2021

17. Downtime today

    By Dave, July 18, 2020
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    • Dave
    • July 18, 2020

18. Rules update: bad faith discussions

    By hypervalent_iodine, February 28, 2020
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    • hypervalent_iodine
    • February 28, 2020

19. Sorry about the downtime -- we're back! 1 2

    By Cap'n Refsmmat, October 18, 2019
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    • dimreepr
    • October 25, 2019

20. Rules update

    By hypervalent_iodine, July 3, 2019
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    • hypervalent_iodine
    • July 3, 2019

21. Rules update: scope of the rules

    By swansont, January 21, 2018
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    • Sensei
    • April 5, 2019

22. Welcome to the upgraded SFN 1 2 3 4 6

    By Cap'n Refsmmat, July 22, 2017
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    • koti
    • January 11, 2019

23. SFN's New Moderators Thread 1 2 3

    By iNow, December 19, 2008
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    • beecee
    • November 2, 2018

24. Upcoming next week: HTTPS support

    By Dave, July 23, 2017
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    • Dave
    • January 23, 2018

25. Rules update: quoting

    By swansont, January 21, 2018
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    • swansont
    • January 21, 2018