Age-Restricted Content on Discord

Discord is home to millions of diverse communities with varying content and discussion topics. We recognize that some content may be more appropriate for certain age groups than others. To support this, we prevent users under 18 from accessing age-restricted spaces on Discord.

Labeling age-restricted content properly on Discord

To help keep age-restricted content in a clearly labeled, dedicated spot, we’ve added a channel setting that allows you to designate one or more text channels in your server as age-restricted.

Anyone that opens the channel will see a notification that it might contain age-restricted content. To access the channel, they'll need to confirm that they are over 18.

Any content that cannot be placed in an age-gated channel, such as avatars, server banners, and invite splashes, cannot contain age-restricted content.

Age-restricted content that is not placed in an age-gated channel will be deleted by moderators, and depending on the rules broken, the user posting that content may be banned from the server.

It's worth mentioning that while having a dedicated place for your age-restricted content is permitted, there is still some material that isn't appropriate anywhere on Discord. For example, content that sexualizes minors is never allowed anywhere on Discord. If you're unsure of what is allowed on Discord, check out our Community Guidelines.

If you’re an adult (18+) and want to customize the sensitive content you see

You can choose to show, blur, or block potentially sensitive image-based media across both filter categories:

• Mature Sexual Media Filter: Detects image-based media that may contain sexually explicit or suggestive material involving adults
• Graphic Media Filter: Detects image-based media that may contain violent or potentially disturbing visual content

Adults can customize their sensitive content filters by changing their preferences in Content & Social settings. There are options to either show, blur, or block image based-media detected by the filters, and each filter (Mature Sexual Media and Graphic Media) has separate controls:

• Direct messages from friends
• Direct messages from others
• Messages in server channels

Default settings for Adults:

• DMs from friends: Show sensitive image-based media
• DMs from non-friends: Block sensitive image-based media
• Server channels: Show sensitive image-based media

Note: In servers, you can only choose to "show" or "blur" image-based media detected by the filters. Blocking is controlled by each server's individual safety settings.

If "Blur" is selected, image-based media detected by the filters where you are chatting will not be shown to you unless you choose to unblur it.

Adults can press on the eye icon to unblur the image-based media, or press the eye icon one more time to hide the media behind a blur again.

For multiple images sent in one message, the blurring will only be applied to the specific images that are detected across either filter category.

You can learn more about our sensitive content filters here, including the teen user experience.

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