Monetization Policy


You May Not Monetize Content Associated With Any Of The Following:

  1. Intellectual property of other rights holders without written permission.
  2. Impersonation, unless it is clearly labeled as parody or satire.
  3. Sexually explicit content, whether hosted on Discord or linked from other services.
    Content may not contain nudity, explicit sexual acts, or content created for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal.
    Exceptions for non-sexual nudity may be made for context that is educational, artistic, or newsworthy at Discord’s sole discretion.
  4. Facilitation, solicitation of, or participation in online dating.
  5. Political candidates, campaign teams, political parties, elected or appointed government officials, and/or partisan political activity.
  6. Exploitation of tragedy, hardship, or turmoil.
    This includes, for example, participating in financially manipulative behavior such as price gouging and inducing artificial scarcity of necessities.
  7. Monetization where the stated purpose of monetization is to support a charitable endeavor.
  8. Promotion of pharmaceutical goods, drugs, and unsafe health practices.
    This includes claims of medicinal benefit from supplements that have not been approved by the FDA or similar regulatory body.
    Telemedicine and telehealth offerings.
  9. Promotion or solicitation of endangering behaviors or activities to yourself, others, or animals.
  10. Primary purpose of marketing, advertising, or promotional benefit of the app or of a third party, such as:
  • Third party servers,
  • Applications,
  • Businesses, or services.
  1. Facilitation of gambling or gambling-adjacent activities such as:
  • Simulated casinos and their games,
  • Gambling discussions,
  • Gambling advice,
  • Community management of gambling operations.
  1. Distribution, manufacturing, sale, or promotion of sales of lethal weapons or explosives and their regulated accessories.
  2. Promotion or encouragement of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs such as:
  • Drug paraphernalia,
  • Displaying characters that are under the influence,
  • Depicting under age drinking,
  • Simulated alcohol games,
  • Alcohol branding,
  • Depictions of hard drug use.
  1. Deceptive, misleading, or manipulative financial practices such as:
  • Multi-level marketing schemes,
  • Financial scams,
  • Fraudulent behavior.
  1. Facilitation of financial asset transfers or securities ownership.
  2. Malware and Software Downloads
  • Spyware,
  • Stalkerware,
  • Illegal hacking devices,
  • Phishing links,
  • Software that is deceptive or compromises user safety.
  1. Inappropriate or distasteful content.
    Content that is inflammatory, demeaning, dangerous, misleading, or excessively violent such as:
  • Misrepresentative or manipulated content,
  • Graphic imagery and realistic displays of crime, violence, physical trauma, execution,
  • Content meant to shock or scare,
  • Disgusting imagery of guts, gore, sexual fluids, human or animal waste.
  1. Profanity or vulgarity,
    Including obscene uses of symbols, emojis, or gestures,
    Emojis or gestures which contain implicit or explicit vulgarity.