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Our forums (message boards) are designed to foster communication between participants. They are the place where Kiwiwriters participants from all over the world can gather to chat, encourage, procrastinate and toss ideas around. The forums are designed to keep spirits (and word counts) soaring. Even if it feels a little scary at first, we ask you to dive right in.
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In the forums, strong language is acceptable only in the body of posts or the body of your excerpts, so long as it’s not used in a hateful or attacking way. We do ask, however, that all participants refrain from using curse words in their usernames, displayed novel titles and subjects of their posts. Filtering software in schools and libraries often renders entire threads invisible when it detects a single instance of strong language, so one expletive-filled username can make a forum unreadable to participants using public computers.
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