Respect Each Other

1. Do not promote, coordinate or engage in harassment. We do not allow any type of harassing behaviour, including sustained bullying, sexual harassment, ban or block evasion, or coordinating server joins for the purpose of harassing server members (‘server raiding’).

2. Do not threaten to harm another individual or group of people. This includes direct, indirect and suggestive threats.

3. Do not share or threaten to share the personally identifiable information (PII) of an individual without consent. This includes providing services that facilitate doxxing, such as buying or selling doxxes or compiling doxxes for others.

4. Do not use hate speech or engage in other hateful conduct. This includes the use of hate symbols, imagery and claims that deny the history of mass human atrocities.

We consider hate speech to be any form of expression that either attacks other people or promotes hatred or violence against them based on their protected characteristics.

5. Do not organise, promote or support violent extremism. This also includes coordinating violent acts; glorifying or promoting violence or the perpetrators of violent acts; and promoting conspiracy theories that could encourage or incite violence against others.

6. Do not solicit, share or make any attempt to distribute content that depicts, promotes or attempts to normalise child sexual abuse. Also, do not post content or engage in conduct that in any way sexualises children. This includes real as well as manipulated media, animation (such as lolicon) and any type of digital creation (note that this includes AI-generated media).

We report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and grooming to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which may subsequently work with local law enforcement.

7. If you are under the age of 18, do not engage in sexual conduct or any conduct that puts your online or physical safety at risk. This includes consensual sexual interactions between teens, as well as any encouragement or coordination of potentially risky behaviours, such as vigilantism.

We want teens to be able to express themselves freely on Discord as much as possible, but given the risks associated with online dating, we will remove spaces that encourage or facilitate dating between teens.

8. Do not solicit sexual content from or engage in any sexual conduct with anyone under the age of 18. We report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and grooming to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which may subsequently work with local law enforcement.

9. Do not make sexually explicit content available to anyone under the age of 18. You must be aged 18 or older to engage with adult content on Discord.

Server owners must apply an age-restricted label to any channels that contain sexually explicit content.

Users may not post sexually explicit content in any space that cannot be age-restricted, including in avatars, custom statuses or bios, server banners, server icons, invite splashes, emojis and stickers.

10. Do not share, distribute or create sexually explicit or sexually suggestive content of other people without the subject’s consent. This includes the non-consensual distribution of intimate media that was created either with or without an individual’s consent.

11. Do not share content that glorifies, promotes or normalises suicide or other acts of physical self-harm. This includes content that encourages others to cut, burn or starve themselves, as well as content that normalises eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia. Self-harm acts or threats used as a form of emotional manipulation or coercion are also prohibited.

12. Do not share real media depicting gore, excessive violence or animal harm, especially with the intention to harass or shock others.

Respect our Server

13. Do not send unsolicited bulk messages (or spam) to others. Also, do not facilitate this activity, such as by selling spambots, server ‘raid’ tools, account-creation tools, token generators, CAPTCHA-solving services or other spam tools.

14. Do not use self-bots or user-bots. Each account must be associated with a human, not a bot.

15. Do not engage with our service in an inauthentic way. This includes artificially inflating server membership, manipulating engagement metrics and selling artificial engagement services.

16. Do not sell or purchase Discord assets, including accounts, usernames, servers, server permissions or custom server invite links.

Abuse of Discord’s paid features or monetisation opportunities are covered under our Paid Service Terms.

17. Do not share false or misleading information (otherwise known as misinformation). Content that is false, misleading and can lead to significant risk of physical or societal harm may not be shared on Discord. We may remove content if we reasonably believe its spread could result in damage to physical infrastructure, injury of others, obstruction of participation in civic processes or the endangerment of public health.

18. Do not misrepresent your identity on Discord in a deceptive or harmful way. This includes creating fake profiles and attempts to impersonate an individual, group or organisation.

19. Do not evade permanent Discord-level enforcement actions. This includes creating new or using existing accounts or communities after being removed for violating our platform rules.

20. Do not engage in activities that could damage or compromise the security of an account, network or system. This includes using deceptive techniques to trick others into revealing sensitive information (phishing), using malicious software (malware) and flooding a target with traffic in order to make a resource unavailable (denial-of-service attacks).

21. Do not use or attempt to use Discord to promote, coordinate or execute financial scams. A financial scam is any intentionally deceptive act taken with the intent to receive an illegal, unethical or otherwise dishonest gain.

22. Do not engage in activities that fraudulently generate a profit at the expense of others. This includes facilitating, providing instructions for and participating in fraud. We do not allow coordinated efforts to defraud businesses, price gouging, forgery, money laundering, counterfeit goods or tools that facilitate illegal behaviour.

23. Do not submit false, misleading or abusive reports or requests to Discord’s support teams. A report or request will be considered false or misleading if it contains demonstrably untrue information submitted with the intent to manipulate staff into taking a desired action.

Follow the Law

24. Do not share content that violates anyone’s intellectual property or other rights. This includes sharing or selling game cheats or hacks.

For more information on how Discord handles copyright complaints, please view our Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy.

25. Do not organise, promote or engage in the selling or facilitation of sales of regulated or potentially dangerous goods. Regulated goods have laws in place that restrict the purchase, sale, trade or ownership of the goods. Dangerous goods have a reasonable potential to cause real-world, physical harm to individuals.

26. Do not coordinate or participate in illegal gambling. Users are responsible for complying with applicable gambling laws and regulation.

27. Do not organise, promote or engage in any other illegal activity, such as human trafficking or sexual solicitation.

If you see any content or activity that violates these Guidelines, our Terms of Service or our other policies, please report it to us. You can learn more on how to report to us here. However, please note that we strongly discourage and may take action against vigilantism, as this behaviour can put individuals in harm’s way and can also interfere with our investigations and ability to report to law enforcement.

These Guidelines will continue to evolve over time. This means we may take action against an account, server or content that violates the spirit of these Guidelines when we encounter a new threat or harm that is not explicitly covered in the current version.

We will always make our best effort to notify you when we update these Guidelines, but it is up to you to follow the spirit of them: keep Discord safe and help us continue to make it the best place to talk, hang out and have fun with friends online. Thanks for doing your part.

These guidelines have been set out by Discord, you can view the full guidelines and policies here