This article discusses NSFW content.
¶ What is Content Moderation on WyvernChat?
Content moderation is the process of reviewing and approving user-submitted content like characters and lorebooks to make sure it follows our community guidelines. It also involves removing content that violates our rules.
¶ How does Moderation Work?
WyvernChat uses a combination of human moderators and an AI moderation assistant we call Bob the Skull. Bob helps speed up the approval process by automatically reviewing all characters. If Bob doesn't approve your submitted content, don't worry! It'll go to our human Content Moderation Team for review, and if there's an issue with it, they'll send you a message letting you know exactly what's wrong and how you can fix it. Lorebooks are also reviewed by Bob, but don't yet come with messages if they're declined by our team.
What does None, Mature, and Explicit mean? Read on!
¶ Our Ratings
Here is a breakdown of each rating:
¶ Tl;dr version:
- None - SFW
- Mature - NSFW without sexual content
- Explicit - NSFW with sexual content
¶ Detailed version:
- None - No worse than shows, games, and movies rated 16+. This allows for light-to-moderate mature themes like violence, death, depression, and war, in addition to SFW romance and flirty themes.
- Mature - This is for content that contains extreme themes that are too much for None, but also don’t feature anything sexual, lewd, or explicit. This includes heavy violence and gore, extreme mental health issues and depression, suicide, discrimination, and more. There’s also the tiniest bit of overlap with this and Explicit in that we allow themes such as prostitution, brothels, etc. to be Mature-rated, but only if the portrayal itself isn’t sexual in nature.
- Explicit - Anything sexual, whether it’s a full-on sexbot or an otherwise SFW character that describes sexual behavior. This also includes describing intimate body parts like breasts, butts, hips, or even feet.
¶ ❓ Am I going to get in trouble if I rate my stuff incorrectly?
No, unless you're repeatedly creating Explicit characters and rating them as None or Mature, and you were told in a Moderator message to stop. We aren't out to get you.
¶ Tagging
You're free to choose your tags, but if your bot includes any of the following, they must be tagged accordingly:
- Shameless Smut: AKA sexbots. It’s for explicit sexual content, erotica, or adult themes. Does a character have a NSFW Profile Photo with genitalia all hanging out there, plus a smutty greeting that leads right into doing the nasty? That needs a Shameless Smut tag. Anything with nudity in the photo or a starting scenario that’s likely to lead to sex soon after starting a chat needs this tag.
- Anthro and Furry: Anthro is for any anthropomorphic animal, and Furry is an animal with humanlike characteristics. We won't come down on you if you confuse the two, though-just use your bests judgement.
- Consensual Non-Consent: Any characters where consent is dubious.
- NTR, Feet, Vore, Incest, or other divisive tags: These tags have a strong reaction in our users, good and bad. While many users search these tags out, a portion of our base blocks them. Please be courteous and tag your character when it's mentioned in your character or plot.
Read more about our tags here!
¶ Reporting
If you'd like to help out our moderators, we encourage you to keep an eye out for potential violations that have slipped through the cracks and submit a report! Our team reviews these reports daily and will investigate these issues for you, taking actions as necessary. If a character is incorrectly rated, is missing a particular tag, or depicts something that isn't allowed, make sure to detail it in the report's description. The more information you give us, the faster we'll be able to fix the issue.
We do ask that you please take a look at our rules and policies before submitting reports, as well as refrain from submitting frivolous reports of characters you don't personally like. These type of reports simply waste our volunteer moderators' time and make us sad. 
¶ How to Report a Character
- Navigate to the character's Profile page.
- Scroll to the Actions section and select the Report button. A popup will appear.
- Fill out the reason why you're reporting the character, then select Send.
- Check the status of your report from Dashboard > My Reports.
¶ Account Bans
If you commit an outright, egregious, and unrepentant violation of our rules or policies, your account may be banned from WyvernChat. This is for only the most serious of violations, like the outright sexualization of minors, the promotion of real-world hatred and discrimination, or other extremely harmful activity. We don't take this action lightly, but sometimes it has to be done for the protection of our users and the site as a whole. If your account has been banned, then we apologize, but we will no longer allow you to use WyvernChat. Any form of ban evading will result in further account bans.
Visit our Prohibited Content Guide to learn more about what is and is not allowed on WyvernChat.