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If an iPhone is your main window into Discord’s cacophonous void of yelling gamers, your options just got a lot more limited.

While many Discord servers include user-created NSFW channels, Discord announced it will begin designating entire servers as NSFW. Discord must now use iOS' "Content Blocker" settings to determine the legitimacy of user-created NSFW channels.

"We have removed a large number of users' default accounts, and have worked closely with the developers of Discord to provide Resolution for those whom we believe have violated our Community Guidelines," the app's Twitter account wrote on Thursday.

Screenshot : Discord.com

In March, Discord told Kotaku that shutting down parts of the diehards' ("play group") network is merely "part of our efforts to extend our reach to users who may not be able to comfortably keep a direct line to a creator." The company then announced it would shut down an IRC chat channel that included GG "banned" from using "sexualized costumes" in August.

Meanwhile, Discord's iOS app bans a number of other community-driven bits of text, including those related to sex, drugs, and alcohol.

Earlier this month, the company suffered a low-key infestation by at least one creep with the notorious "n4phorene" username. This somewhat daft nickname parodied the cute-but-creepy imageboard r/picsofdeadkids—such a popular destination for players such as @Whitewolf394 who enjoyed a notably poor record of DMCA-blocking.

When a DMCA takedown notice was received for the Daily Stormer website, Discord's older Sandbox community contributed to the campaign and harnessed the service's API to get pictures off the leaksourcepedi database.

"The user had clearly posted images which was damaging, and we legally cannot remove those images from our download database," said Daniel Miller, a Discord PR representative, in an e-mail on Thursday. "I am happy to confirm that we worked closely with the Doxxers to remove images that went contrary to our terms of service. We are not shutting down or banning these users out of animosity."

Screenshot : Discord.com

For more than a year Discord has invested in a well-documented transparency campaign, offering unyieldingly open chat logs to authors, developers, reporters, and the citizens close to the Discord's geek-godheads. Over the top jokes are not allowed, as is addressing Kinect and reminders of family dynamics.

Welcome to revenue white horse ahead. Keep. They. Coming.

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