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WIRED Community Guidelines

Share your perspective, ask questions, and join our community by commenting on our articles.

WIRED is obsessed with what comes next. Through rigorous investigations and game-changing reporting, we tell stories that don’t just reflect the moment—they help create it. Reader comments are essential to our goal of fostering a truly connected WIRED community, and we invite anyone interested in sharing insight, asking questions, and engaging in respectful disagreement to join the conversation. Create an account to be a part of it all.

How We Moderate

At WIRED, we value active participation from our readers and invite you to share your thoughts on our stories. The comments section is a space for conversation and community, where readers can raise topics, exchange ideas, and engage with one another. We ask that you help foster a thoughtful, respectful, and welcoming atmosphere for everyone.

We moderate to ensure the information exchanged in comments is contextual, constructive, and trustworthy. Our comments are moderated by human reviewers, Monday through Friday. As a result, some comments and replies only appear on articles once approved, usually within 1-2 days.

If you have any questions about our community guidelines, you can email: [email protected].

What We Value
  1. Thoughtful contributions directly related to the article or topic
  2. Insights from your personal experience
  3. Questions that we and others in the community can answer
  4. Respectful questions asking for clarification or more information
  5. Honest opinions that tell us what we missed or got wrong
  6. Helpful tips and suggestions
What We Don't Allow
  1. Hate speech, personal attacks, discriminatory or profane language
  2. Revealing anyone’s personal information without their consent
  3. Trolling or aggressive behavior
  4. Impersonation of others
  5. Promoting or linking to off-topic posts, including any content deliberately promoting a business/product
  6. Repeatedly posted spam-like content may also be removed

Comments that breach our guidelines will be deleted, and your account may be at risk of being banned. Once a comment is added to an article, it can be found in search results on websites like Google and Yahoo. WIRED also reserves the right to display its content in a variety of ways, including within the text of articles or in advertisements and on social media.

If you have any questions about our community guidelines, you can email [email protected].

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