Rules & reports
This site is a free speech site. You can say what you think about a mod, an author, a game or the world. You can be blunt. You can be wrong. Nothing is taken down because it made somebody angry.
Things come down for one reason only: they break one of the five rules below. A report has to name the rule. "I'm offended" is not a rule, and a report that only says that is closed.
Illegal content
Content that is against the law where we operate, such as sexual content involving minors, real threats of violence, or pirated games.
Doxxing
Posting someone's private information: real name when they keep it private, address, phone, workplace, accounts they keep apart.
Harassment of a real person
Targeting a real person again and again, sending others after them, or threatening them. Disagreeing, criticising and joking are not harassment.
Malware or harmful files
Files that damage computers, steal data, mine coins, or hide what they do.
Stolen assets
Someone else's work uploaded without their permission. The report should come from the owner or show the original.
What is not a reason
- You don't like the mod, or think it's bad.
- The author used AI tools.
- The mod is paid.
- Someone criticised you or your mod.
- A joke you didn't find funny.
- Opinions about politics, religion or anything else.
How a report is handled
- You pick the rule and point at what breaks it.
- Staff check it against that rule, and only that rule.
- If it breaks the rule, it is hidden and the page says which rule. The owner is told why.
- If it doesn't, the report is closed and you're told why.
- Every staff decision is logged with the rule it used.
Stolen work
If your work is in someone's mod without your permission, report it under Stolen assets and link the original. Authors list credits and permissions on every mod page, so permission is easy to show.
Safe files
Every file is scanned by an antivirus the moment it's uploaded, and opened so we can see everything inside it. Programs, scripts, DLLs outside a game's plugin folder, password-locked archives and sudden jumps in size are flagged for staff. No file can be downloaded until its scan is clean. A new author's files are also checked by staff; once an author has a mod approved, their clean files go live straight away. Every file is scanned again each day with the newest virus definitions. If one is ever found to carry a threat, it's pulled at once and everyone who downloaded it gets a warning.
Only download mods from the mod's own page here. A copy of a mod posted somewhere else is not the same file.
Selling mods
Some game makers don't allow mods for their games to be sold. For those games, mods can't be put up for sale here. Supporting an author, tips, the Modhold Pass and supporters-first early builds are donations and stay open.
| Game | Selling mods | From the game maker's terms |
|---|---|---|
| Skyrim SE | Not allowed | Bethesda's Creation Kit licence (section D): you may not charge for others to download, install or use your mods, or for making them, without ZeniMax's written consent. Paid mods go through Bethesda Creations only. Source |
| BG3 | Not allowed | Larian's modding terms say you may not receive any compensation for BG3 mods other than as Wizards of the Coast's fan content policy allows. Source |
| KCD II | Not allowed | Warhorse: you can't sell mods without their written permission. Reasonable donations are fine. Source |
| Cyberpunk | Not allowed | CD Projekt Red's REDmod licence: mods are for non-commercial use and you cannot sell them. Source |
| CK3 | Not allowed | Paradox's mod rules say you may not charge to buy a mod or charge fees of any kind. Source |
| Every other game | Not checked yet: not allowed | The game maker's terms haven't been checked yet, so its mods can't be sold until they are. |
Translations and add-ons
A translation or add-on of someone else's mod must list the original as a required mod, link it and credit its author, and carry only the translated or new files.