Rules Generator

Assemble a rules channel from clauses written as one plain sentence each, formatted and ready to paste — and it tells you when you have written more rules than anyone will read.

Your server

Used in the heading. Leave it blank for a generic one.

Conduct

Content

Spam & self-promo

Voice

Moderation

12 rules

Paste this straight into your rules channel.

# Server rules

## Conduct
1. Treat everyone here with basic respect. Disagree with the argument, not the person.
2. No harassment, slurs, or hate directed at anyone for who they are.
3. Do not call out or pile on individual members. Bring it to the moderators instead.
4. Do not DM members you do not know, especially to sell or pitch something.

## Content
5. No NSFW or gore anywhere in the server.
6. No piracy, cracked software, or anything else illegal.
7. Post in the channel a thing belongs in. The topic at the top of each one says what that is.

## Spam & self-promo
8. No spam: no wall-of-text, no repeated messages, no mass pings.
9. No advertising other servers, products or channels without asking a moderator first.

## Moderation
10. Moderator decisions stand in the moment. If you think one was wrong, take it to modmail rather than arguing in chat.
11. These rules cover the obvious cases. Moderators can act on anything that is clearly against the spirit of them.
12. Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines apply here too.

-# Questions or appeals go to modmail.

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Edit these into your own words before posting. A rules channel that reads like it came off a website is one members skim; one that sounds like the people running the server is one they remember.

Why most rules channels fail

They are too long, written in legal English, and only about four of them are ever acted on. Members skim, moderators improvise, and the gap between the written rules and the enforced ones is where every argument about fairness starts.

Every clause here is one plain sentence naming a behaviour, because a rule people can repeat from memory is a rule they can follow. If a rule needs a paragraph, it is probably two rules — or a policy that belongs somewhere other than the channel new members read first.

Fewer is stronger

Past about ten rules, the ones at the bottom stop being enforced, and an unenforced rule quietly undermines every rule above it. The tool warns you at twelve for that reason, not to be tidy.

The catch-all clause is what lets you stay short: stating that moderators can act on anything clearly against the spirit of the rules means you never have to write rule 47 about the specific thing somebody did last Tuesday.

Then edit them

This produces a draft, not a finished channel. Put it in your own words — a rules channel that sounds like the people running the server gets read, and one that sounds like it came off a website gets skimmed. It is also not legal advice or a moderation policy; it is a starting point for a team that knows their own community.

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