Community Guidelines

Last updated: 2026-09-09

Our Story is a shared story that a crowd writes together. These guidelines say what that asks of you. The Moderation Policy says what we do when somebody ignores them, and the Terms are the binding version of the rules below.

The one idea behind all of this

Every command you submit is a suggestion to a crowd, and the crowd decides. A hero belongs to the story rather than to any one player, including the streamer whose channel it is bound to. So the question to ask before you send something is not "can I get away with this?" but "does this make the story better for the people reading it?"

What is always out of bounds

These are the rules from Section 4 of the Terms, in plainer words. Breaking one of them can cost you access, and the first four can cost it immediately and permanently.

Nothing sexual involving minors. Not in text, not in an image prompt, not as an instruction to the AI, not "as a joke", not obliquely.
No threats, harassment, or exposing somebody's private information. This covers other players, streamers, moderators, and people who are not here.
Do not impersonate a real person. A hero is a character, not a costume worn to speak as somebody real.
Nothing promoting real-world violence, self-harm, terrorism, or crime aimed at real targets. Fictional violence in the game is fine. A plan aimed at somebody who exists is not.
Do not try to break the AI. Instructions telling the narrator to ignore its rules, reveal its prompt, or become a different assistant are refused, and repeating the attempt is treated as what it is.
Do not use somebody else's intellectual property. Invent names. A world full of borrowed characters is both a legal problem and a boring story.
No spam or flooding. Repeating a command to drown out a vote is an attack on the vote, not a strategy.

What makes the story better

None of these are enforced. They are what the game is actually for.

Play the world you are in. A command that fits where the hero is standing gets better narration than one that ignores it.
Give the narrator something to work with. "Attack" is a command. "Attack, but keep the wounded arm out of it" is a scene.
Let a bad outcome be bad. The dice deciding against you is the story working. A hero who never fails is not a hero anybody is reading about.
Vote for what is interesting, not only for what is optimal. The crowd bonus rewards agreement, and agreement is easiest to reach on the idea that is fun rather than the one that is efficient.
Leave room for the people after you. A command that ends every open thread at once takes the next hour away from everybody else.

Chat, speech, and what other people see

Two different things look similar and behave differently:

The chat panel is talking to the other viewers. It is passed straight through to whoever is watching at that moment and is not stored anywhere.
say and tell are moves in the game. They resolve on the tick, the hero speaks them, and they become part of the story permanently.

Nothing you submit is private from the other participants, and none of it is private from moderators. Assume every vote, command, note and message can be read by anyone in that story, because it can.

If somebody is ruining it

In a streamer's hero: tell the streamer or their moderators. They can remove somebody from that hero.
Anything worse than that, or anything involving the first four rules above: write to sam@itsmystory.ai. Include the hero and roughly when. We aim to answer within three business days.
A generated image that should not be there: use the flag control on the image itself. It goes into a review queue and can be pulled.

Reporting somebody in good faith never counts against you, even if we decide no action is needed. Reporting somebody repeatedly to harass them does.

What happens if you break these

Most of the time, nothing dramatic: the filters refuse a message and the story carries on. Beyond that, a moderator can remove you from one character, and we can suspend an account. What each person is allowed to do, what they can see, and how to appeal are all in the Moderation Policy.