Community Guidelines
Community rules for safer servers, channels, and conversations
Discord community guidelines set expectations for harassment, hate speech, scams, privacy violations, spam, illegal activity, and real-world safety risks across servers, DMs, voice, video, and community spaces.
Core principles
The principles behind safer Discord communities
01
Respect people behind the screen
Harassment, threats, hate, humiliation, and targeted abuse can make a space unsafe even when framed as jokes or drama.
02
Keep trust intact
Scams, impersonation, phishing, spam, and manipulation undermine the trust that servers and communities rely on.
03
Protect private information
Personal data, credentials, contact details, payment information, and identity records should not be exposed or used for retaliation.
04
Treat real-world risk seriously
Violence, exploitation, child safety risks, self-harm encouragement, and criminal coordination require faster, stronger action.
Risk zones
High-risk areas covered by the guidelines
Respect
Harassment, hate speech, and targeted abuse
Repeated insults, dogpiling, humiliation, discrimination, hateful conduct, or coordinated targeting can make communities unsafe.
- Repeated public targeting
- Persistent harassment in DMs
- Coordinated raids or dogpiling
Safety
Violence, exploitation, and real-world harm
Threats, dangerous encouragement, child safety risks, and real-world harm signals are treated with higher urgency.
- Threats of violence
- Encouraging self-harm or dangerous behavior
- Risk involving minors
Scams
Scams, phishing, and impersonation
Fake giveaways, login traps, payment scams, and impersonation tactics are used to collect money, credentials, or clicks.
- Fake giveaways and support scams
- Malicious links and login traps
- Moderator or brand impersonation
Privacy
Privacy violations and doxxing
Posting private contacts, addresses, identity details, credentials, or payment data can create lasting harm beyond the conversation.
- Phone numbers, addresses, or IDs
- Credentials or payment screenshots
- Private data used for retaliation
Abuse
Spam, automation, and platform manipulation
Mass posting, invite spam, abusive bots, artificial engagement, and coordinated disruption damage the order of servers and channels.
- Spam ads and forced traffic
- Member or engagement farming
- Automation used for harassment
Illegal
Illegal or dangerous activity
Illegal transactions, dangerous materials, criminal coordination, and evasion of legal or platform restrictions can be handled quickly.
- Illegal trade or coordination
- Dangerous materials
- Evasion of law or platform restrictions
Enforcement logic
How reports and violations are assessed
Reviews often consider intent, repetition, targeting, context, real-world risk, impact size, and whether a user or server is trying to avoid earlier enforcement.
Find the signal
Reports, automated detection, moderator input, or safety review can surface harassment, scams, privacy abuse, or other policy risks.
Review the context
The surrounding conversation, relationship, channel, timing, spread, and server history often matter as much as one message.
Apply proportionate action
Action can include warnings, content removal, feature limits, account restrictions, server action, or permanent access loss.
If something goes wrong
What to include when reporting a violation
Clear evidence helps reviewers understand what happened. Include message links, timestamps, channel names, server context, related accounts, screenshots, and whether anyone is at immediate risk.
Message links and channel context
Related accounts, roles, and servers
Screenshots, timestamps, or URLs
Immediate safety or real-world risk
Next step
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