# Server List Rules > What a listing on the Wilderack server list may show, how votes and rewards work, how we check listings and reports, and what happens if rules are broken. Version 0.1, last updated 2026-11-13. Draft awaiting legal review. ## The short version - Anyone with a Wilderack account can list a server for free, wherever it runs. Everyone 13 and up can read the list, so every listing has to suit them. - No contact details, no "message me privately", no adult content, no scams, no gambling for real money, and no claims to be official. - A person checks every description, link, banner and icon before it shows, and looks at every new name. - One vote per player each day. Never buy votes, fake them, or make players vote to play. - Anyone can report a listing without an account. Enough reports hide it until a person looks. - If we act on your listing, we email you why. A different person looks again if you disagree. These rules apply to the [Wilderack server list](https://wilderack.com/servers/), the public pages where players find servers to play on. They're part of our [Terms of Service](https://wilderack.com/legal/terms/) and sit alongside the [Acceptable Use Policy](https://wilderack.com/legal/acceptable-use/). Many people who read the list are teenagers, so the rules are stricter than on most lists. ## Who can list a server - **Anyone with a Wilderack account** can list up to 10 servers for free, whether the server runs on Wilderack or somewhere else. - **Only list a server you run,** or one whose owner asked you to list it. Where we can read a server's name or message of the day, we ask you to prove the server is yours with a short code before the listing goes public. You can also prove it with a DNS record on your domain. - **A Wilderack server lists itself** when you turn on **Put it on the server list** in its Settings. It stays listed while it sleeps and shows as sleeping, not offline. - **If you're under 18,** never put your real name, age, school, town or photo in a listing. Publishing a listing makes it public. Anyone can see it, link to it and find it in search engines. Your listing never shows your name or email address. ## What a listing may show A listing has a name, a short tagline, a description, tags, the game version and region, a website, a Discord invite, a banner and an icon. Everything in it must follow these rules. - **Be accurate.** The address must go to the server you describe, with the game, edition, version and tags it really has. - **Write for everyone 13 and up.** No swearing, slurs, sexual words or pictures, gore, or anything that makes fun of people for who they are. - **Only use what's yours.** Don't use another server's name, a creator's name or face, or a logo you don't have the right to use. - **Links only in their own fields.** Your website and Discord invite go in their fields, as `https` links. No link shorteners, no other links in your text, and the Discord server must follow these rules too. - **Pictures follow the same rules as words.** Banners are PNG, GIF, JPEG or WebP pictures, 468 × 60 or 936 × 120 pixels, up to 1 MB. An icon comes from your server itself. We keep only the picture: details hidden in the file, such as where a photo was taken, are removed when you upload it. Wherever a Minecraft server is listed, the list adds Mojang's notice that it's not an official Minecraft service and not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. Every listing's page also says who owns the game's name. ## What a listing must never have - **Contact details:** email addresses, phone numbers or usernames on other apps, and no asking players to message you privately or move to another app. Players should meet your community on your server or your listed Discord. - **Anything for adults only,** or a server that's only for adults. The list is for everyone 13 and up. - **Scams:** free Robux, V-Bucks, Nitro or skins, giveaways that ask for passwords or payment details, and account or item sales. - **Gambling for real money,** or selling paid random rewards like crate keys or loot boxes. Many game publishers ban them, and many players are under 18. - **Claims to be official,** or to be run, endorsed, partnered or checked by a game's publisher or by Wilderack. That includes names like "Mojang Partner" or "Facepunch Staff", and badges or banners that look like a publisher's. - **Promises about safety.** Don't call a server "safe for kids" or "child friendly". Nobody can vouch for strangers on a server, and we can't either. - **Anything the Acceptable Use Policy bans,** such as hate, threats, cheats, stolen accounts or illegal content. What happens on your server matters too. A server that breaks these rules or a game publisher's rules for server owners (our wiki links to each game's rules) can be removed from the list, even if its listing looks fine. ## How we check listings - **Automatic checks** look at every name, tagline, description and message of the day for the things above, including words spelled with look-alike letters or numbers. - **A person checks** every tagline, description, website, Discord invite, banner and icon before it shows, and again each time you change one. Names show straight away, and a person looks at every new name and every rename. - **Your message of the day** shows only while your server is online, and only once it passes the automatic checks. An approved listing means its words and pictures follow these rules. We can't see what happens inside a server, so approval doesn't mean we've checked the server itself. ## Votes and rewards - **One vote per player each day,** reset at midnight UTC. Servers rank by the votes they get each month, and votes start again on the first of the month. - **Don't buy votes, fake them, or use bots or extra accounts.** Don't pay or reward players for voting more than once a day, and don't make anyone vote to join or play. - **Rewards are allowed** for Minecraft servers through Votifier: you can thank a player who votes with an in-game reward, as long as it follows the game's rules. The player chooses whether to send their Minecraft name with their vote. - **We never pass a voter's IP address to you.** Votes reach your server with `0.0.0.0` where Votifier expects one. We may hide or remove a listing that cheats on votes. ## Status checks To show whether your server is online and how many people are playing, we connect to the address you list every few minutes, the same way the game does. For games that only answer through Steam, such as Rust and Valheim, we ask Steam's public server list whether a server of that game is running at your address and port. Only list an address you have the right to list. We check that every address is a public one before we connect. Wilderack servers don't need these checks, because we already know their status. ## Embeddable banners Every public listing has a banner you can put on your own website or forum. It updates by itself with your server's status and votes. Don't change it to make it look like a Wilderack award or badge. ## Reports Anyone can report a listing with the **Report this server** link on its page, without an account. Reports are anonymous: we never tell owners who reported them. - **Reports about young players' safety** reach our team straight away. - **Two such reports from different internet connections,** or five reports of any kind in a week, hide the listing until a person has looked at it. We email the owner when that happens. - **If someone is in danger right now,** contact your local emergency services first. You can also report a listing by email to abuse@wilderack.com. ## What we do when rules are broken What we do depends on how serious it is, whether it was deliberate, and whether it has happened before. 1. **Turn down a change,** such as a new description or banner, and tell you why so you can fix it. 2. **Hide** a listing while we look at it, or until you fix it. 3. **Remove** a listing for good. 4. **Stop you listing servers,** for serious or repeated problems. For the most serious cases, such as anything that puts children at risk, we also act under the Acceptable Use Policy, close accounts and tell the authorities where the law asks us to. We email you with our reasons when we turn down a change, hide or remove a listing, or stop you listing servers. A listing that has been offline for two weeks is paused, and you can publish it again when your server is back. ## If you disagree with a decision Reply to our email, or write to abuse@wilderack.com within 6 months. A different person from the one who made the decision looks at it again and tells you the result. If we got it wrong, we undo what we did. ## Changes to these rules We may update these rules as the list grows. For important changes, we email owners who have a listing before the change takes effect. The date at the top shows the last update. ## Contact Wilderack Inc., a Delaware corporation in the United States. Reports and appeals: abuse@wilderack.com. Help with your listing: support@wilderack.com. --- Canonical page: https://wilderack.com/legal/server-list-rules/ How we write and check our guides: https://wilderack.com/company/editorial-policy/ Corrections: support@wilderack.com