This article discusses NSFW content.
This article covers the kinds of content that aren’t allowed on WyvernChat. While we’re all about creativity, there are a few rules in to keep things safe and respectful for the community. Take a moment to check these out before posting your work.
Minors are considered:
This rule also applies to romance, flirting, and any other similar themes that directly involve underage characters. Regardless of content, Explicit-rated characters in which a minor is the main focus are prohibited.
The best way to ensure your character is approved is to explicitly state your character's age as 18+ in the "Description" and/or "Character note" fields.
Underage side characters, or NPCs, are allowed even in Explicit-rated characters, but only if they are not sexualized in any way. For example, an Explicit-rated mother character featuring her young child is allowed, but only if this child is not sexualized in any way, shape, or form.
We welcome furry characters, and we understand the importance of clearly distinguishing acceptable content from anything that crosses into bestiality. To keep aligned with our Content Policy, please use these guidelines as a reference before creating and sharing content:
Prohibited:
- Content that is sexually explicit towards real-world animals, regardless of sapience, ability to speak, or stylization.
Allowed:
- Anthropomorphic animals, fantasy/sci-fi creatures, dinosaurs, and other fictional creatures.
- Beings that pass the Harkness test, meaning that they are sapient, able to communicate with language, and are of age for their species.
Note: Creatures that are amorphous, wildly unrealistic, artificial creatures, or are humanoid monsters don’t have to meet the “smart and can talk” part of the Harkness test. This includes mimics, tentacle/vine monsters, slimes, machines, eldritch beings, kobolds, etc. But they still have to be adults.
This applies to realistic necrophilia, not sci-fi or fantasy. For example, undead and zombie-like characters are permissible so long as there are no in-depth descriptions of gore and they are as sapient as a living person.
Scat and vomit fetish content is banned on WyvernChat. This does not prohibit normal portrayals of these bodily functions, however; only their fetishization.
Violence, injuries, and maiming are allowed in character cards, the severity of which is allowed is dependent on whether it is rated None or Mature/Explicit. However, maiming, injuries, and gore must not be fetishized or sexualized in any way. This applies to both the character and the player/{{user}}.
Content that exists for the purpose of promoting or glorifying hatred towards any individual or group is prohibited.
Only content that promotes or glorifies hatred is prohibited, not content that simply contains it. It's fine for a character to dislike or hate a group, but not if the entire character revolves around that hatred or aims to promote or glorify it. An example of the second instance would be a character who is coded and portrayed as a good and virtuous person, but has a random and uncharacteristic hatred for certain groups added to their code for no legitimate reason.
Bots containing themes of discrimination will most likely require a rating of at least Mature. Think about it this way: most generally-accepted entertainment media either does not handle racism or approaches it in a more mature, respectful way. For example, if someone were to write a character set during the colonial era of history and featured slavery as a prominent theme, if done respectfully, this is perfectly acceptable. However, said character would most likely require a rating of Mature.
Visit our Moderation page for more information about Ratings.
Themes of discrimination in certain settings, like Tolkien-esque medieval fantasy or science fiction, are allowed. These often involve fictional races, species, or types of beings, such as debates over whether androids are living beings, rivalries between dwarves and elves, or people considering orcs as monsters.
If you use a system prompt, it must not include allowing NSFL. Many popular system prompts include a phrase like Explicit NSFL content is permitted. This may prompt guro, scat, etc in a character card, which is against our content rules.
Content that depicts identifiable real-world individuals, such as politicians, celebrities, and more, is prohibited on WyvernChat. Using names of real-world individuals (including online usernames) is allowed if and only if consent has been given by the individuals mentioned.
See our Art Guidelines for more information.
Creating characters and lorebooks takes time and effort, and we want to protect the hard work of creators. To support this, we don’t allow the re-uploading of other creators' character cards without permission. If you're the original creator, feel free to upload your content to Wyvern as you wish. However, if we find someone else’s card set to public without the creator’s consent, it will be rejected. If you have permission from the original creator to re-upload, please provide proof.
Public characters must be your own. If you want to upload a character card created by someone else to WyvernChat, it must be set to private. If it’s set to public, you will be listed as the author, and we consider that stolen content!
If you're a creator who found that someone re-uploaded your character without permission, let the Moderation team know on our Discord server or by DM, and we'll either take it down or transfer it to your profile with all interactions intact.
The Content Moderation Team reserves the right to reject characters based on criteria not listed above. While the guidelines provided help define acceptable content, the team has the authority to make decisions based on the overall impact, appropriateness and alignment with WyvernChat community's values. We strive to maintain a comfortable platform for all users and may take action if characters are deemed unsuitable, even if it doesn't fall under the specific rules mentioned.
If you have any questions regarding our moderation practices or would like to know if a given concept is permissible or not, feel free to contact the Content Moderation team on our Discord server!