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This part is not part of the policy.
Essentially, the policy says you own what you say, but people will make edits in the wiki fashion. Totally altering someone's statement around would not be allowed (of course!), because that allows for stuffing words into people's mouths.
Also, the site maintains control over its structure to prevent wholesale mirroring of the content here. Note, while anonymous contributions have no known authors, they are still protected by the law. However, it would be difficult to prove authorship of anything anyway as there is universal editing.
We'd additionally like to be able to redistribute How Tos and FAQs written here communally, not to mention taking back ups of the database. Hence the timestamped snapshots.
Finally, we'd like to avoid being sued frivolously. If we are, we prefer a jurisdiction fitting the circumstances of our lives.