Ready-made rules for your Discord server: pick a server type, tick and edit the rules, then copy them into your rules channel.
Setting up a new server and stuck on the rules channel? Pick your server type and a full set of Discord server rules is ready at once: each rule a short bold title and one plain sentence, numbered, with a header on top and a closing line about warnings, mutes, kicks and bans. Press Copy rules and paste the text into your rules channel. The preview shows roughly how Discord will display it, so you see the headers, the bold titles and the small closing line before anyone else does. It works as a Discord rules template you use as it is, or as a starting point you shape into rules that sound like your community.
Every set starts from the basics most servers need: be respectful, no hate speech, no harassment or bullying, no spam, no NSFW content, no advertising, listen to staff and follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Then the server type adds its own. Gaming brings no cheating or exploits, good sportsmanship and no real-money trades. Study and school adds no cheating on schoolwork and quiet study rooms. Art and creative asks members to credit artists, never trace or repost art and label AI images. Roleplay covers staying in character, no godmodding and respecting boundaries. Music adds no piracy and keeping bot commands in their channel, and business and support servers get ticket etiquette and a warning that staff never ask for passwords. Under each set wait more rules for a Discord server, switched off: English only, no begging for roles or Nitro, no alt accounts, the age requirement and more.
Switch any rule on or off, tap its title or sentence to rewrite it in place, and use the arrows to move it up or down. Add a rule writes your own at the end of the list. Numbering gives you 1., Rule 1: or keycap emoji, and Format switches between Discord markdown and plain text. Under More options you can change the title, the intro and closing lines, drop the links to Discord's Terms and Community Guidelines, or go back with Reset to the template. Your rules are remembered in this browser, separately for each server type, so you can come back later and pick up where you left off.
The markdown version uses only formatting Discord shows in a normal message: a # header for the title, bold rule titles and -# subtext for the closing line. The two Discord links are wrapped in angle brackets, which keeps them clickable without a big preview card under your rules. Plain text drops every symbol, for places that show text as it is, such as a server description or a document. Keycap numbers go from 1️⃣ to 🔟 and then use two keycaps, so rule 11 is 1️⃣1️⃣.
Discord caps a message at 2,000 characters, or 4,000 with Nitro (Nitro Basic stays at 2,000), and longer pastes get turned into a text file. When your rules run longer, the tool splits them into numbered messages at rule boundaries, so a rule is never cut in half, and shows each message's count against the limit. Copy rules then walks through them in order: copy message 1, paste it, come back for message 2. Pick the 4,000 limit under More options if you have Nitro.
There is no bot to invite, no permission to grant and no login. The rules are put together in your browser and saved only in this browser's storage, so nothing about your server leaves your device. For the rest of your Discord setup there are the Discord PFP Cropper, which fits a photo into the round avatar before you upload it, the Discord PFP Viewer, which shows any profile picture full size, and the Discord Name Converter.
Create a text channel called rules, set its permissions so everyone can read it but only staff can send messages, then copy the rules here and paste them in as a message. If your server has Community turned on, Discord also asks you to choose a rules channel in the server settings, and this is the one to pick.
Keep them short and clear: respect for other members, no hate speech or harassment, no spam or NSFW content, no advertising without permission, a line about following staff and Discord's own Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and what happens when someone breaks a rule. Add the few rules your community really needs, such as no cheating in a gaming server or crediting artists in an art server, and leave out anything you will not enforce.
A Discord message holds at most 2,000 characters, or 4,000 with Nitro. A long rule list is split at rule boundaries into messages that each fit, and the count on each one shows how close it is to the limit. Paste them one after another and they read as one list.
Rules Screening, found under Safety Setup in the server settings of a Community server, makes new members accept your rules before they can talk. It takes up to 16 rules, each entered on its own line in Discord, so pick your most important rule titles and type or paste them in there one by one.
Yes. Rules 1 to 9 use the keycap emoji, rule 10 uses the 🔟 emoji, and from 11 on each digit becomes its own keycap, so rule 12 shows as 1️⃣2️⃣.
Yes, in this browser only. Your ticks, edits, order and options are kept in the browser's own storage and come back when you return on the same device. Nothing is uploaded, so another device or a private window starts from the template again.