Nexus Mods neighborhood supervisor Pickysaurus has shared a press release to the modding web site’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 now have not seen any examples of customers getting blocked for posting hyperlinks aside from the instance above,” Pickysaurus wrote, referencing an r/pcgaming put up alleging an occasion of faulty auto moderation by Discord. “It could 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 danger of being moderated by Discord for posting Nexus Mods hyperlinks. Each our group and a number of other neighborhood volunteers have tried posting hyperlinks in varied codecs and areas with no unwell results. The current feedback on Reddit appear to again this up too.”
I can affirm that final level personally as effectively: I’ve shared a hyperlink to the Spider-Man 2 mod referenced within the authentic Reddit put up 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 positively are limitations to your privateness on Discord. The corporate “does scan all areas for top hurt content material like malware and little one 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 equivalent 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 constructive 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 rapidly addressed by Discord help—the inciting Reddit put up seems to be the primary reported occasion of this since September 2025.
As ever, it is nonetheless greatest to deal with all the things you say on a Discord server as a public assertion, very like a tweet. Not solely as a result of Discord is unencrypted, versus privacy-forward purposes like Sign, but in addition as a result of individuals appear to like screenshotting and sharing embarrassing or in any other case incriminating Discord messages to social media.
