Nexus Mods neighborhood supervisor Pickysaurus has shared an announcement to the modding website’s Discord server addressing a declare circulating on social media and gaming websites that Discord is banning customers who share hyperlinks to Nexus Mods. The declare doesn’t look like true. I’ve reached out to Discord for remark, and can replace this story if I hear again.
“We’ve got not seen any examples of customers getting blocked for posting hyperlinks aside from the instance above,” Pickysaurus wrote, referencing an r/pcgaming submit alleging an occasion of misguided auto moderation by Discord. “It might be a coincidence {that a} hyperlink to our web site was a part of the discover.
“On the time of writing, there doesn’t look like any threat of being moderated by Discord for posting Nexus Mods hyperlinks. Each our crew and several other neighborhood volunteers have tried posting hyperlinks in varied codecs and places with no unwell results. The latest feedback on Reddit appear to again this up too.”
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I can verify that final level personally as nicely: I’ve shared a hyperlink to the Spider-Man 2 mod referenced within the unique Reddit submit on a number of servers I’m part of, as have a number of customers on the Nexus Mods Discord. A number of hours later, I retain entry to my Discord account.
There undoubtedly are limitations to your privateness on Discord. The corporate “does scan all areas for prime hurt content material like malware and baby sexual abuse materials,” explains the ultimate entry of a Q&A concerning the Discord Warning System, “and we could scan for different coverage violations in giant communities.”
However the firm limits scans to solely that “excessive hurt materials” when “smaller areas similar to direct messages (DMs), group chats, and small/non-community servers.” Piracy, or, as alleged, false positives of piracy, doubtless fall within the “different coverage violations” class.
A handful of customers on the Nexus Discord reported experiencing false optimistic copyright strikes on their accounts associated to NexusMods hyperlinks final August and September, however these weren’t full multi-year bans as alleged on Reddit, and appear to have been shortly addressed by Discord assist—the inciting Reddit submit seems to be the primary reported occasion of this since September 2025.
As ever, it is nonetheless greatest to deal with every thing you say on a Discord server as a public assertion, very similar to a tweet. Not solely as a result of Discord is unencrypted, versus privacy-forward functions like Sign, but additionally as a result of individuals appear to like screenshotting and sharing embarrassing or in any other case incriminating Discord messages to social media.
