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Community Guidelines.
The baseline rules for every public space on Vronify.chat. Server owners can add their own on top, never subtract from these. Five rules, written to be read, with the edge cases spelled out below.
Effective 1 July 2026
How these guidelines work.
Two layers of rules, one platform. Here is who they cover, where they apply, and where they stop.
Two layers: platform baseline, then server rules
These guidelines are the floor for the entire platform. Every server on Vronify.chat inherits them automatically, and no server owner can opt out of them or grant exceptions to them. On top of that floor, each server sets its own rules: stricter topics, tighter tone, narrower scope. A cooking server can ban politics. A study server can ban memes. What no server can do is permit what this page forbids.
That split keeps responsibilities clear. Server owners and their moderators enforce their own rules with the moderation tools we build: roles and permissions, slow mode, automated filters, and a full audit log of moderation actions. Our platform team enforces the baseline on this page. If you run a community, the owner handbook and moderation guide explain how to layer your rules on top of ours well.
Where the guidelines apply
Everywhere a stranger can see you. That means messages in community channels, threads, and polls; voice channels; your profile, nickname, and bio; server names, descriptions, icons, and banners; custom emoji and server tags; invite links; and any server listed on the Explore page. If a space is public or shared, the baseline applies to it, and so does anything a server has added on top.
Direct messages are different by design. DMs on Vronify.chat are private, which means we do not read them, and we do not make exceptions to that for moderation. The guidelines still bind your conduct in DMs - harassing someone in private is still harassment - but investigating a DM report depends on what the person receiving those messages chooses to show us. We think that trade-off is the right one: your private conversations stay private, and public spaces stay moderated. Community channels are deliberately visible to their community and its moderators, precisely so moderators can keep shared spaces safe.
Who the guidelines cover
Every account, without rank exceptions. Members, moderators, server owners, and our own staff are all bound by the same five rules. Owning a server does not license harassment inside it, and moderating a space does not put you above the rules of that space. The guidelines also cover automated activity: anything an automation does in a server is the responsibility of whoever configured it. Our built-in bot engine, coming soon, is designed around that principle - automation that serves a community, switched on and answered for by the server owner.
The five rules, in full.
The short version fits on a card. This is the long version, with the reasoning and the edge cases.
1. Treat people like people
Disagree with ideas as hard as you like. Harassment, hate, threats, and pile-ons directed at people are not welcome anywhere on the platform.
The line runs between ideas and people. Blunt criticism of an argument, a project, a game, or a post is normal and healthy; some of the best communities are built on it. Slurs, dehumanizing language, threats of violence, encouraging someone to hurt themselves, and sexual harassment target the person instead, and they are banned everywhere, in every server, regardless of local rules.
Pile-ons deserve their own mention because they hide behind scale. One sharp reply is a disagreement. Fifty coordinated replies, mass reactions used to mock, or organizing another server to descend on someone is a campaign, and we treat it as one. If you find yourself recruiting others to make one person's day worse, you are on the wrong side of this rule no matter how each individual message reads.
Context matters and moderators weigh it. Friends roast each other; regulars share dark jokes; heated debates run hot. We are not interested in policing banter between people who are clearly fine with it. We are interested in the moment someone is plainly not fine with it and the behavior continues anyway.
2. No illegal content or behavior
Anything illegal to post or do is banned here too. That covers credible threats, incitement to violence, fraud, distributing malware, trading in stolen accounts or credentials, and selling goods that are illegal to sell.
Content that sexualizes minors results in immediate removal, a permanent ban, and a report to the authorities. There are no second chances on this one, and no interest on our part in edge-case arguments. It is the single brightest line on the platform.
We are built in the Netherlands and we operate within the law. Where the law requires us to act on content or to report it, we do. Where it does not, the rest of this page governs, and we err on the side of removing what a reasonable person would recognize as criminal activity rather than waiting for paperwork.
3. No spam or manipulation
Do not flood channels, mass-mention people, spread malware, run scams, or artificially inflate communities. Automation is welcome when it serves a community, not when it abuses one.
In practice this covers: posting the same message across many channels or servers, mass DM campaigns, mention-bombing, phishing links, fake giveaways, engagement schemes, buying or botting members to game the Explore page, and blasting invite links into servers that did not ask for them. It also covers ban evasion - coming back on a fresh account to continue behavior you were removed for restarts the clock at zero and usually ends the discussion faster.
The automation half of this rule cuts both ways. Automation that welcomes members, answers common questions, or keeps a channel tidy makes communities better, and our upcoming bot engine exists to make exactly that kind of automation safe and native. Automation that scrapes members, floods, or manipulates is spam with extra steps. Owners defending against it have slow mode and automated filters on their side, and we act on it at the platform level when it crosses servers.
4. Respect the spaces you are in
Each server sets its own rules on top of these. Follow them, and follow reasonable instructions from the people who moderate the space. If a community is not for you, leaving is always an option.
Server rules are real rules. "It is not against the platform guidelines" is not a defense for breaking a server's rules, and moderators do not owe you a debate about every removal. Read the rules channel, take a hint from the room's tone, and when a moderator asks you to drop a topic, drop it. Rules-lawyering - probing for the exact wording gap that lets you keep doing the thing everyone asked you to stop doing - is itself a way of disrespecting the space.
This rule protects you too. Moderator instructions must be reasonable: a moderator who uses their tools to harass, humiliate, or bait members is violating rule one, and being staff in a server does not shield them from the baseline. Disagree with how a server is run in whatever channel that server provides for it, or vote with your feet - the Explore page is full of alternatives, and starting your own server takes about a minute.
5. Respect privacy
Do not share other people's private information without their consent, and do not publish private conversations to shame someone. Private DMs protect your privacy; extend the same courtesy to others.
Private information means the things that follow a person off the platform: home or work addresses, phone numbers, government IDs, financial details, and real names shared to intimidate or expose. Posting them, threatening to post them, or aggregating public scraps into a dossier on someone all count. So does publishing screenshots of a private conversation for the purpose of humiliating the other person, and recording someone in a voice channel to embarrass them later.
There are honest gray areas. Quoting a public message in a public argument is normal. Warning a server owner, privately and with evidence, that someone is running a scam is responsible. The test is purpose: sharing to keep people safe is different from sharing to hurt someone, and moderators can tell the difference more often than rule-breakers hope.
Where the line is.
Most gray areas are less gray than they look. The same behavior, on both sides of the line.
These examples are illustrations, not an exhaustive list. Moderators and our platform team judge behavior by its purpose and effect, not by whether it matches a row in a table.
How to report something.
Reports are how the baseline gets enforced. Here is the path, and what makes a report actionable.
Report it where it happened
Use the in-app report tools on the message or profile - that is the fastest route, because the report arrives with its context attached. If you cannot use the app, or the situation is complicated, write to support@vronify.chat instead. For security vulnerabilities rather than conduct, use the vulnerability disclosure process - different problem, different door.
Tell us what happened, specifically
Which rule, which server, which account, and where we can see it. Specific reports get resolved; vague ones stall. For DM situations, remember we do not read private conversations - what you choose to share with us is the evidence we have, so include the messages that matter.
We read it and route it
We read every report. Baseline violations - the five rules on this page - are handled by our platform team. Reports that are really about a server's own rules get pointed back to that server's moderators, because local rules are their call, not ours.
Action follows severity
Outcomes range from content removal and a warning to timeouts and permanent bans. We will tell you your report was handled, but we usually will not share the details of action taken against another account - the same privacy that protects you protects everyone.
Enforcement, and what it never touches.
Consequences should fit the violation, and losing your voice should never mean losing your history.
What enforcement can do
- Remove content that breaks the baseline, anywhere on the platform
- Warn, timeout, or ban accounts, with severity matched to the violation
- Act on entire servers that exist to break these rules
- Hold owners and moderators to the same five rules as everyone else
What it never does
- Read your private DMs, for any investigation, ever
- Confiscate your account or erase your message history as punishment
- Hold your data hostage - export stays available to you
- Punish without saying which rule was broken
Two levels, clearly separated
Moderators handle their own servers, using their own rules plus this baseline, and their tools reach exactly as far as their server does. Our platform team handles violations of the baseline itself, with warnings, timeouts, or bans depending on severity. We do not micromanage server decisions, and servers cannot overrule platform ones. Most days, most enforcement on Vronify.chat is local - a moderator quietly handling a bad afternoon - and that is how it should be.
The ladder
For most baseline violations, consequences escalate: content removal and a warning first, a timeout if it continues, a ban if it keeps continuing or if the first offense was severe enough to skip the pleasantries. Some things skip the ladder entirely - content that sexualizes minors, credible threats of violence, and malware are permanent-ban territory on the first occurrence. Ban evasion collapses the ladder too: continuing on a new account converts whatever you had left into a ban.
A ban stops participation. It does not confiscate your life here.
This is the part most platforms get wrong, and the part we refuse to. A ban on Vronify.chat ends your ability to participate - you cannot post, join, or speak. It does not take your account, and it does not take your data. You keep every message you ever sent and the DMs you received, unless the sender removed them. You can export your data at any time while you can sign in. And if you want to leave, you can delete your account, which anonymizes it: your name and profile are removed, while the messages you already sent stay in their conversations attributed to a deleted user. Punishment and ownership are separate questions here, and the full reasoning lives on the account ownership page.
Appeals
If you believe a platform-level action against you was a mistake, write to support@vronify.chat and make your case. Tell us what happened from your side and why you think the call was wrong; a person will look at it. Server-level actions - being kicked or banned from an individual server - are appealed to that server's own moderators, because their rules are theirs to enforce. We only step in on server decisions when the server itself is violating the baseline.
Questions about the guidelines.
Can a server have stricter rules than these?
Yes, and most good servers do. A server can ban topics, tighten tone, restrict channels, and remove members for things this page never mentions. What a server cannot do is loosen the baseline: no server rule can permit harassment, illegal content, spam, or doxxing. Stricter is always allowed; looser never is.
I was banned from a server. Can you overturn it?
Usually not, and by design. Individual servers are run by their owners, and who they welcome is their call. Being banned from a server is not itself a violation of anything, even when it feels unfair. Appeal to that server's moderators if they offer a route. We step in only when the server or its staff is breaking the baseline - for example, a moderator using their position to harass. In the meantime, the rest of the platform is open to you: every public server on the Explore page, or one of your own.
What happens to my account and data if I am banned?
You lose the ability to participate. You keep your account, every message you sent, and the DMs you received, unless the sender removed them. You can export your data while you can sign in, and if you would rather vanish, you can delete your account, which anonymizes it: your name and profile are removed, while the messages you already sent stay in their conversations attributed to a deleted user. A ban is a consequence, not a confiscation - the account ownership page explains why we drew the line there.
Can you read my DMs to investigate a report?
As a matter of policy, no. DMs are private and staff do not read them - not for moderation, not otherwise. If someone is harassing you in DMs, report it and share the messages you received; your copy of the conversation is yours to show. It is a real trade-off: DM investigations depend on what reporters share, and we accept that cost to keep private conversations actually private.
Do these rules apply to moderators, owners, and staff?
Yes, all of them, including us. A moderator who uses their tools to harass members is violating rule one with extra leverage, and we treat the leverage as an aggravating factor, not an excuse. If a server's own staff is the problem, report it to us directly at support@vronify.chat rather than in the server they control.
What counts as spam if my community actually wants the content?
Consent is most of the answer. Automation a server enabled on purpose is a feature; the same volume pushed into servers that never asked is spam. Post promotions where servers explicitly allow them, keep automation under the owner's control, and never trade in fake engagement - botted members and bought reactions are manipulation even if nobody complains, because they defraud everyone browsing the Explore page.
Do the guidelines change?
Occasionally, as the platform grows and new behavior shows up. The five rules themselves are meant to be durable; what evolves is the detail around them, like the examples and edge cases on this page. Material changes are announced in the changelog, and this page is always the current version. The guidelines work together with the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy; where those documents govern, they say so.
Someone is breaking the rules right now. What is the fastest route?
Report in-app on the offending message or profile - it carries the context with it. If it is a server-rule matter, the server's moderators will usually be faster than we are, because they are already there. For baseline violations, anything involving safety, or situations where the server's staff is part of the problem, contact us at support@vronify.chat, and see the support page for other routes.
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