Community Guidelines

Introduction 

Guilded was founded with one humble goal — to connect gaming communities. In pursuit of this goal, we've developed a host of features for your community to chat, organize, share content, recruit, and compete with one another.

We recognize that for communities to flourish, players need to be both empowered to express themselves while also feeling safe and free from abuse. To that end, we've drafted a series of Community Guidelines to help communicate how the policies established in our Terms of Use affect our users and servers, and how we can promote diverse conversations across our communities.   

Guidelines

In order to provide a safe and fair environment for our users, some content and activity is not permitted on our services. Content and activity that is not tolerated broadly fall into four categories: 1. Violence and harassment, 2. Objectionable content, 3. Criminal behavior, and 4. Hacking and cheating. In addition, all publicly visible content, including but not limited to profile pictures, banners, team logos, profile posts, and public channel content, must be suitable for ages 13 and up.

1. Violence and harassment

Incitement & promotion of violence

You may not share content or engage in activity promoting, celebrating, or instigating real-world violence. This includes but is not limited to glorification of real-world violence, graphic depictions of violence against individuals or groups, credible statements of intent to commit violence or calls for violence against any party.

You may not use our services to coordinate acts of violence, vandalism or property damage, or other criminal activity.

Dangerous organizations

You may not represent, promote, or celebrate organizations that advocate for or participate in real-world violence or criminal enterprises. This includes but may not be limited to terrorist organizations, gangs, trafficking rings, and movements that advocate for or participate in mass murder or serious harm to others.

Targeting individuals or groups

You may not engage in or direct harassment towards individuals or communities. Harassment may include but is not limited to persistent unsolicited messages, threats of any kind, sharing or expressing intent to share private information, evading blocks or bans to persist in unwanted contact with an individual or community, or establishing communities with the explicit or implicit purpose of degrading, threatening, or otherwise targeting an individual or community.

2. Objectionable content

Hate speech

You may not engage in hate speech on our services. We generally adhere to the definition of hate speech as messages, media, terms, or rhetoric that attacks or promotes the attack or dehumanization of people or groups on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. This includes representation, celebration of, or advocacy for groups or movements that have perpetrated atrocities or advocate for violence against protected groups.

Graphic content

You may not publish content depicting real-world death and murder, gore, assault, dismemberment, executions, torture, mutilation, suicide or self-harm, or real or simulated sexual abuse or violence. Real and simulated heinous imagery distributed with the perceived intention of shocking or distressing others may be removed without warning, and users engaging in this activity may incur temporary or permanent suspensions.

We recognize that some graphic content may be shared on communication services within the context of discussing or raising awareness for sensitive subjects, and these may be permitted with some limitations.

Sexual content

You may not publish or distribute sexually explicit depictions of minors, including illustrated or digitally simulated depictions, nor distribute resources for obtaining said content.

You may not publish or distribute private sexually explicit content without the consent of the depicted individuals, including but not limited to leaked content and revenge pornography, nor distribute resources for obtaining said content.

You may not publish or distribute content depicting or promoting sexual abuse, violence, or exploitation, nor may you facilitate or coordinate sexual solicitation.

Animal cruelty

You may not publish or distribute content that depicts or promotes real-world animal torture, mutilation, abuse, sacrifice, or blood sports.

We recognize the sensitivity and subjectivity of content depicting real-world hunting and encourage individuals sharing content that depicts hunting activities to exercise discretion. Hunting photography that depicts excessive blood or graphic content, or desecration of carcasses, may be removed without warning.

Extreme insensitivity

You may not publish or distribute content that celebrates cruelty or explicitly mocks the suffering of victims of violence, disaster, or harassment. This includes but is not limited to victims of murder, mass murder, terrorism, suicide, self-harm, starvation, natural disasters, accidental death or serious injury, mutilation, or torture of any kind.

3. Criminal activity

Regulated goods & substances

You may not participate or coordinate in the production or private exchange of weaponry on our services. This includes but is not limited to firearms and firearm parts, ammunition, explosive materials, regulated bladed weapons, instructions or schematics for developing dangerous weapons, and 3D printing schematics for firearms.

You may not participate or coordinate in the production or private exchange of drugs and regulated substances on our services.

Piracy & fraud

You may not share or distribute pirated content on our services. This includes but is not limited to games and software, movies, television, music, books, audiobooks, and comics.

You may not exchange cracked or stolen accounts and software, nor tools to facilitate cracking on our services.

You may not share exploits for online or in-game storefronts.

You may not participate in nor promote financial schemes through our services. This includes but not limited to sharing links to financial exploitation tools, requesting funds for illicit services, bribery, embezzlement, laundering, debt relief, or charity scams.

You may not impersonate individuals, especially but not exclusively with the intention of defrauding or deceiving others.

4. Hacking & cheating

Game hacks & exploits

Pursuant to Guilded’s commitment to enriching the competitive gaming experience, you may not engage in any activities that undermine the integrity of competitive gaming on our services. This includes but is not limited to promoting, developing, distributing, or utilizing cheats, hacks, or exploits, or tools to facilitate cheating and hacking in competitive games.

Account trading & boosting

You may not trade, sell, or otherwise exchange account login credentials on our services. You may not solicit account boosting or boosting services. Servers offering or facilitating boosting services or exchange of accounts may be disbanded without warning.

Responsibility

Users are responsible for the content they publish on our services. Content that is in violation of our Community Guidelines may be removed without warning, and users publishing said content may incur warnings, limitations to feature access, temporary or indefinite suspensions, or a permanent ban.

Server owners are responsible for all server-level content on their servers. This includes but is not limited to server banners, logos, names, and custom URLs, About descriptions, announcements, and roles. We expect server owners to make a reasonable effort to remove user-published content from their server that is in violation of Guilded’s Community Guidelines in a timely manner. Failure to uphold Guilded’s Community Guidelines may result in warnings, limitations to feature access or permanent server disbandment.

Servers that promote, encourage, or otherwise officially feature content that is in violation of our Community Guidelines may be removed without warning. Members of servers that are brazenly in violation of our Community Guidelines may incur warnings, limitations to feature access, temporary or indefinite suspensions, or a permanent ban. If you have joined a server that you believe may be in violation of Guilded’s Community Guidelines, please leave the server immediately.

Note that these guidelines are not exhaustive. Content or activity that may be in violation of our Terms of Use may not be explicitly referenced in this document. If you have concerns about specific content or activity not covered in this document, you may forward your questions to support@guilded.gg.