Discord Community Guidelines Update Allows Hacking Discord Servers

Hey there. This post is slightly different from most, since it’s about Discord and not Minecraft Clients, but it IS relevant, as you will see soon.

Discord updated their Guidelines yesterday, and at first I didn’t really think anything of it. That is, until I saw a post on Reddit stating that Discord now allows servers about Minecraft hacking/cheating, or hacking/cheating in any video game. Obviously, this sparked my attention. I mean, this would be amazing, wouldn’t it. So, I started scrolling through the ToS. Couldn’t find anything. Checked the ENTIRE Privacy Policy, (in retrospect, why would it be in the privacy policy? It’s the privacy policy…) couldn’t find anything. Well, at this point I was about to go to sleep and I’m fucking lazy, so I just wrote a quick Reddit post on r/minecraftclients (the most toxic community on reddit, yet I’m still somehow addicted to scrolling through that sub) and sure enough, when I woke up, someone sent me 2 links. Turns out, it was the community guidelines (duh), and I got a link to the old one and the new one. Sure enough, I finally found the section about video game cheating. Now, let’s play a game of spot the difference.

Old:
You may not promote, distribute, or provide access to content involving the hacking, cracking, or distribution of pirated software or stolen accounts. This includes sharing or selling cheats or hacks that may negatively affect others in multiplayer games.

New:
Do not distribute or provide access to content involving the hacking, cracking, or distribution of stolen goods, pirated content, or accounts. This includes sharing or selling game cheats or hacks.

As you can see, the differences are very small, but they just might be enough. Let’s go over this, shall we. I think the most important difference is that they removed the word „promote“ in the new one, meaning yay, we can all ‚promote‘ hacking now, I guess. However, this literally means that while in the past every server that mentioned a single hacked client, could be terminated. (Slight exaggeration there, but yeah, the rules were strict.) Now, that isn’t the case any more. However, before we all open our own discord servers with alt shops, clients, and more, we should probably read the rest, because as it turns out, ‚distributing or providing access to content involving hacking, cracking, distribution of stolen goods, pirated content, or accounts‘ is still against the rules, meaning no Alt Shops, no cracked stuff, and you can’t distribute your client via your discord server. (In case you own a free one.) It’s still quite interesting though, and it means I will be opening a discord server for MCN (with giveaways, hopefully) soon.

That’s going to be all. I’m actually really happy about this change, so thanks to Discord, ig.

~ SmackVideo