You just had a great idea for a new Discord server and immediately created it but now you need not only to set up the channels and permissions but also to grind through the daunting task of coming up with a list of rules.
There are so many things to consider, so many possible ways that people could ruin your server, and you also wonder about how you can design your rules in such a way that the members will be able to enjoy their time on your server but also not go overboard.
Wouldn't it be so nice if there was a template or a list of rules that you could quickly copy, paste and tweak? Fear not, you just found it!
With this simple list—which I intend to keep updating as I find good ideas on more servers—you can get some inspiration for your own server rules. Feel free to copy and modify. No crediting is required.
If you would like to suggest more items or recommend a server that has a good set of well-structured, well-thought-out rules, don't hesitate to DM me on Discord: Cristiano#2233. I'll credit your suggestion. Also, feel free to fork this gist.
Note: Some of the rules may sound contradictory. That's because I just made a list of all the rules that I could come up with. Whether you keep or take out any of them is completely up to you.
Note 2: A lot of the text chat rules can be used for voice chats as well, so I didn't repeat them.
- No blank nicknames.
- No inappropriate nicknames.
- No sexually explicit nicknames.
- No offensive nicknames.
- No nicknames with unusual or unreadable Unicode.
- No blank profile pictures.
- No inappropriate profile pictures.
- No sexually explicit profile pictures.
- No offensive profile pictures.
- No membership granted to minors (under 18 years).
- Moderators reserve the right to change nicknames.
- Moderators reserve the right to use their own discretion regardless of any rule.
- No exploiting loopholes in the rules (please report them).
- No DMing other members of the server.
- Rules apply to DMing other members of the server.
- No inviting unofficial bots.
- No bugs, exploits, glitches, hacks, bugs, etc.
- No questioning the mods.
- No @mentioning the mods.
- No asking to be granted roles/moderator roles.
- @mention the moderators for support.
- Contact the moderators under #channel for support.
- No @everyone/@here mentioning without permission.
- No @mentioning spam.
- No sexually explicit content.
- No pornographic content.
- No NSFW content.
- No illegal content.
- No piracy.
- No modding.
- No homebrew.
- No hacking.
- No publishing of personal information (including real names, addresses, emails, passwords, bank account and credit card information, etc.).
- No personal attacks.
- No witch hunting.
- No harassment.
- No sexism.
- No racism.
- No hate speech.
- No offensive language/cursing.
- No religious discussions.
- No political discussions.
- No sexual discussions.
- No flirting.
- No dating.
- No flaming.
- No flame wars.
- Agree to disagree.
- No trolling.
- No spamming.
- No excessive messaging (breaking up an idea in many posts instead of writing all out in just one post).
- No walls of text (either in separate posts or as a single post).
- No CAPS LOCK.
- No overusing emojis.
- No overusing reactions.
- No external emojis.
- Keep conversations in English.
- Use #channel for conversations in another/other language(s).
- Moderators reserve the right to delete any post.
- Moderators reserve the right to edit any post.
- No advertisement.
- No advertisement without permission.
- No links.
- No linking to other servers.
- No memes.
- No pictures.
- No gifs.
- No bot commands.
- Bot commands only under #channel.
- List of allowed bot commands:
- No channel hopping.
- No offtopic/use the right text channel for the topic you wish to discuss.
- No voice chat channel hopping.
- No annoying, loud or high pitch noises.
- Reduce the amount of background noise, if possible.
- Push to talk only.
- Moderators reserve the right to disconnect you from a voice channel if your sound quality is poor.
- Moderators reserve the right to disconnect, mute, deafen, or move members to and from voice channels.
- No command spam.
- No macros.
- No hacks.
- No adding/changing/removing commands.