Community Guidelines Update

The VRChat community is what makes our platform so strong – without you, VRChat would simply not exist. To be blunt, the community is the reason why we come into the (proverbial) office every day.

In order to keep that community safe, we’ve always instructed our users to follow our Community Guidelines and our Terms of Service.

As VRChat has grown, however, we’ve started to feel like our Community Guidelines have become a bit of a relic. We wanted to change them so that they were easier to understand, more relevant to our current community, and that they were directed at both users and creators.

So we’ve done that! The Community Guidelines have been completely updated. Instead of summarizing them here, we strongly suggest that you read through them. They’ve been completely rewritten from the ground up, so it’d be hard to summarize them anyway!

Additionally, we’ve created a new set of guidelines specifically for creators – aptly titled the Creator Guidelines.

Generally speaking, none of these guidelines are new or a surprise. These new guidelines do not come with a change to how we’re enforcing our rules, but it does mean that our guidelines are much more clear!

It’s strongly suggested that all creators read through these guidelines. While they likely won’t come as a surprise, we thought that breaking them out and codifying them would make our expectations of our creator community clearer.

You’ll also notice that, at the top right of both pages, there is a date showing when they were last updated. While we won’t always announce changes with a blog post like this, whenever we do make a change, that date will change.

We will discuss these Guidelines in our Dev Update thread for tomorrow (August 3 2023), so if you have questions or requests for clarifications, check out that thread when it goes up!