The Noice Community Guidelines are a common baseline that all channels must follow. But they are only a baseline. Some communities may want to have more specific rules that cover certain topics, language or ways of engaging that are unwelcome. We encourage you to write rules for your community that best communicate the kind of community you want to build.

However, if you do so, please make sure that you do not attempt to write community rules that are less restrictive than the Noice Community Gudeilnes or Terms of Service. This is not only confusing, it is also against the Noice rules.

The rules of your channel community are yours. But if you fail to enforce the rules of your own community, or otherwise allow behavior to take place in your community that is violative of the Noice rules, this can spread beyond your own community and affect others—whether it is through your fans becoming disruptive in other channels because of the bar you’ve allowed, or in the worst case, if the community built around your channel begins to engage in real-world behavior as a group that is harmful.

If we identify that your channel and viewership have developed a reputation for disruptive or violative behavior in other parts of Noice or on other platforms, we may take enforcement action against your channel.

Channel owners and their moderators have the power to moderate chat discussions, mute users, or ban them from their channel. This power should be used fairly, equitably, and honestly. and in a way that is consistent with the Noice rules.

This means that it is against Noice rules to

• Use moderator tools to mute, silence or ban members specifically on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
• Use moderator tools to harass, intimidate or bully any person, such as by arbitrarily muting or banning users in a way that is abusive
• Use moderator tools in any other way that enables or facilitates a violation of the Noice rules

This list is not exhaustive. 

Proper labeling of channels helps everyone. It allows players who want a safer play experience to choose channels that fit their needs. It allows players who enjoy banter, trash talking, adult conversation or certain topics to find channels that fit their needs. It also helps make sure that minors who are using the platform can have an age-appropriate experience.

Intentionally mislabeling a channel or communicating inaccurate rules for the channel chat break this system and is a serious violation of user trust and of the Noice rules. At the least it is trolling users; at the worst, it puts users in harms’ way.

The following behaviors are against the Noice rules:

• Intentionally mislabeling a channel in a way that communicates it is more moderated or safer than its channel owner or moderator intends to be
• Intentionally presenting “fake” or inaccurate channel rules that are different from those applied by the moderators
• Intentionally miscommunicating that a channel will not contain or not allow certain kinds of banter or discussion

This list is not exhaustive. When in doubt: if multiple reasonable people could conclude that a particular behavior is intentending to mislead users as to the content on the channel, don’t do it.