Community Guidelines

Last updated: 2026-10-01 (version 2026-10-01.2)

This English translation is provided for convenience. The Portuguese version prevails.

GameTale is a creative space for interactive stories. To keep it safe and welcoming, everyone who publishes, comments or interacts on the platform must follow these guidelines. They are part of the Terms of Service, and breaking them may lead to moderation action, including suspension or a ban of the account.

1. Zero Tolerance

The following is forbidden in any story, image, profile, comment or message, and leads to immediate action:

Sexual content involving minors, or content that sexualises minors in any way, including fictional characters depicted as minors.
Exploitation or abuse of children and teenagers.
Grooming of minors, and extortion using intimate content (sextortion).
Sexually explicit content of any kind, in text or images, at any rating.
Intimate images shared without consent.
Hate speech, harassment, threats or exposing someone’s information to intimidate them (doxxing), including against people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or other protected characteristic.
Sharing other people’s personal data, such as an address, phone number, documents or private photos.
Promotion of self-harm, suicide or eating disorders.
Extreme graphic violence or gore made to shock.
Content that depicts illegal activity in a way that encourages it, or that facilitates it.
Plagiarism and unauthorized use of text, images, character art, sprites, audio or other assets you did not create and have no right to use (see the Copyright Policy).
Impersonating other users, public figures or organizations.
Spam, scams, fraud, malware or phishing.
Asking readers to pay outside GameTale for content published here or for access to it.
Reading farms, artificial reading, fake accounts or any manipulation of revenue share or rankings (see the Revenue Share Program).
Lying about the AI-generated flag or about a story’s rating (see Content Ratings & AI Disclosure).
Evading a ban or using duplicate accounts to escape moderation.

Stories may deal with difficult themes such as self-harm, suicide or eating disorders, provided they do so with care, with clear content warnings, and without encouraging harm.

2. What Is Allowed (With Limits)

GameTale has two ratings, General and Teen, and nothing sexually explicit is allowed at either (see Content Ratings & AI Disclosure). Within that, you can tell stories with:

Romance and emotion, without sexual content.
Drama, conflict, moral ambiguity and complex characters.
Horror and suspense with fictional violence, not gratuitously graphic and not glorifying real atrocities.
Moderate violence that fits the narrative.

Choose the correct rating, flag the story as AI-generated when it is, and use clear content warnings for difficult themes, so readers can make an informed choice. Moderators may re-rate a story whose rating is wrong.

3. Respect Creators

Publish only what you created, what is in the public domain, what you licensed properly, or what the rights holder explicitly authorized.
Give credit when an asset, idea or text comes from someone else’s work and is licensed for that use.
Do not copy stories, characters or assets from other GameTale users without permission.

4. Comments and Interactions

Be respectful. Constructive criticism is welcome; abuse is not.
Do not spam, advertise, or try to lead people to other platforms in a deceptive way.
If someone bothers you, you can block them. A block stops interaction in both directions.

5. How to Report

Use the Report button on the story’s page or on the user’s profile, or write to support@gametale.app with the link to the content, profile or comment and the reason. For sexual content involving children or teenagers, choose the reason “Child sexual abuse or exploitation”: that report takes priority, and the case is reported to Brazil’s Federal Police. Every report is reviewed by a person. The details are in Reporting, Moderation & Appeals.

If you believe a child or teenager is at risk, contact the authorities as well (in Brazil, Disque 100).

6. Moderation Actions and Appeals

When a violation occurs, we may take one or more of these actions, in proportion to its severity and history:

A warning, sent by email.
Removal of the content.
Re-rating, unpublishing or restricting the visibility of a story.
Holding or forfeiting the earnings tied to the content, under the rules of the Revenue Share Program.
Suspension of the account until a set date, at most 365 days away, which ends by itself.
A ban, which lasts until the team lifts it.

Serious violations, such as any sexual content involving minors or threats, may lead to an immediate ban without prior warning, and to a report to the authorities where the law requires it. A report of child sexual abuse or exploitation is reported to Brazil’s Federal Police, and the information linked to it is preserved for 6 months, or longer if an authority asks, even if the account is deleted.

While an account is suspended or banned, nobody can sign in to it, and its profile, stories and comments are hidden, not deleted. A suspension or a ban ends an active subscription and refunds the unused paid days pro rata, except when the reason is payment fraud: in that case nothing is refunded. The person receives an email with the reason and may appeal within 30 days. How to appeal is explained in Reporting, Moderation & Appeals.