Community Guidelines

Be kind

Treat everyone here the way you'd like to be treated.

• Criticism of the game is welcome. Keep it about the game.
• Disagree politely. Leave out insults, name-calling and mockery.
• Help new players with their questions.
• Don't pile on. Once someone has been corrected, let it go.

No harassment or hate

We remove harassment and hate, and either one can get you banned on the first offense. That includes:

• attacking or insulting people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other part of who they are;
• slurs, hateful symbols, and jokes that put down a group of people;
• threats, wishing harm on someone, or encouraging anyone to hurt themselves;
• following someone around the site, or onto other sites, to bother them;
• organizing raids or pile-ons against a player, a VTuber or another community.

Protect the person behind the avatar

VTubers choose what they share about themselves. Respect that, and respect every player's privacy too.

• Never reveal, guess or hint at the real name, face, location, age or other accounts of anyone behind a VTuber.
• No face-reveal hunting. Don't post, ask for or link to photos, leaks or "investigations" about who someone is.
• Don't share anyone's personal information, such as real names, addresses, schools, phone numbers, photos or private messages.
• Don't ask other players for personal details or photos, and don't push anyone to move a conversation somewhere private.
• Keep your own personal details out of your posts too.

We remove doxxing right away, and it can get you banned on the first offense. If someone asks you for personal information or makes you feel unsafe, report it and tell an adult you trust.

Keep it 13+

Everything here should be fine for a 13-year-old to see.

• Nothing sexual: no sexual content, sexual comments about anyone, or sexualized art.
• Never sexualize anyone who is, or looks like, a minor. We remove it, ban the account, and report child sexual abuse material to the authorities.
• No gore. VTuber Smash is a fighting game with a hand-drawn anime look, so keep violence in your posts at that level. No real-world gore, injury photos or shock images.
• Nothing that promotes drugs, alcohol, gambling, self-harm or eating disorders.
• Keep your language suitable for teens. Swearing at someone counts as harassment.

Credit artists

• Share your own art. When you share someone else's, have their permission, credit them by name and link to where they posted it.
• Don't repost art without permission, and never crop out or remove a signature or watermark.
• Don't trace or copy someone's art and call it yours.
• If you draw a VTuber who isn't in VTuber Smash, follow that creator's own fan-art rules.
• For fan art of VTuber Smash itself, see Fan art in our Terms.

Be yourself

• Don't pretend to be a VTuber, an agency, the VTuber Smash team, a moderator or another player. That includes your display name.
• Don't claim to speak for a VTuber, or say one is joining VTuber Smash. Only the team announces who joins, and real VTubers join only with their written permission.
• VTubers who'd like to be considered can apply on the For VTubers page.
• One account per person. Don't use extra accounts to get around a ban or to add votes.

No spam or ads

• No ads, sales or promotions.
• You can mention your own channel or art when it fits the conversation. Don't post just to promote it.
• No repeated posts, chain messages, or flooding a thread with off-topic posts.
• No scams, phishing, malware, pirated content or links to cheats.
• Don't run giveaways or contests here without the team's OK.

Spoilers and leaks

• Mark spoilers. If your thread talks about something other players may not have seen yet, start its title with "Spoilers:". In a reply, put a spoiler warning at the top.
• Don't post leaked files, builds, art or news that hasn't been announced, or anything shared with you in confidence.
• Found a bug that could be abused, or a security problem with the site? Don't post it. Tell us privately through the contact in Changes and contact.

Post in the right place

• Forums: pick the category that fits, and start a new thread for a new topic.
• Requests: one idea per request. Search first, and vote for an existing request instead of posting it again.
• Bugs: one bug per report, with the steps that make it happen, what you expected and what happened. Check the known issues first.

Reports and moderation

How to report

Use the Report button on any thread, post, request or bug report, and say in a few words what's wrong. Reports are private, and we don't tell the person you reported who sent it.

For doxxing, copyright, impersonation or anything urgent, also read our Takedowns page. It explains what to send us and where.

In preview mode, the Report button saves your report only in your browser, so we never see it.

What we do

People on the VTuber Smash team, and moderators we choose, review reports. Depending on what happened, we may:

• Hide a thread, post, request or bug report, so nobody sees it.
• Warn you, and tell you which rule you broke.
• Suspend your account, so you can't post, vote or apply until a date we set.
• Ban your account for good, so you can't post, vote or apply again.

We look at how serious it was and whether it has happened before. Doxxing, threats and sexual content involving minors get an immediate ban.

When we act on your content or account, we email you at the address on your account to say what we did, which rule it broke and how to appeal, unless that would put someone at risk.

Appeals

Think we got it wrong? Write to the appeals contact in Changes and contact, from the email address on your account. Include your display name, what we did, and why you think it was a mistake.

Someone on the team takes a fresh look and replies with the result. If we got it wrong, we put back what we removed or lift the suspension.

Appeal only through that contact. Please don't use new accounts or other players' threads to argue about a decision.

Changes and contact

We update these guidelines as the community grows. The date at the top shows the latest version. These guidelines are part of our Terms.

Ask questions about the guidelines in the Forums, and report something broken on the Bugs page. To flag a post, use its Report button.

A direct contact address for appeals, private bug and security reports, account help, privacy, doxxing, copyright and impersonation will be listed here soon.