Moderation

This page serves to be transparent in regard to what things are exactly moderated and the statistics for each moderation category.

Our World of Text can be split into three major components: the canvas, the chat, and the Discord server. All three components aren't moderated equally and may have different philosophies regarding moderation.

We define moderation as the manual intervention by an administrator(FP for the canvas and Fern for the Discord). This includes:

Muting spammers in the chat
Forbidding grooming in chat
Removing underage users from the chat (protection purposes)
Rate limiting script abusers on the canvas
Roll-backing certain regions on the front page
Banning and/or warning people on the Discord server
Color banning users that image-paste porn/gore/scat on the front page
Thwarting DoS attacks against the server
Taking down CSAM/illegal content
Enforcing rules on the /main world (not the front page)

We try to stay hands-off as much as possible while trying to balance site usability and moderating special cases. You're free to talk about just about anything. Unlike certain communities, you are free to advertise other sites and speak out against the administration. Your right to be critical of OWOT is protected.

Time Machine

In 2022, FP developed the Time Machine to reverse the damage done by an 2020 spam wave which covered hundreds of coordinates on the Mainpage. This feature allows select users to see what sections of the site looked like at any given point in the past and, if desirable, revert it to that stage.

Time Machine perms were initially reserved to admins. In August of 2025 lime.owot and Echoden also received access to the tool, but only in /main so that they could moderate the world while FP is offline.

The Time Machine used to be accessible via 2s4.me/private/owot_timemachine/.

The Time Machine being used by fox to restore damage done to /main(August 28th, 2025)

Statistics

As of 10/6/2024, there have been 342 recorded IP addresses affiliated with a spammer known as 'starianna'
As of 9/6/2024, there are at least 51 recorded IP addresses belonging to 'PinkiePie' with some ban reasons including pasting pornography and abusing scripts; dozens more addresses have not been recorded
As of 9/6/2024, there are at least 621 recorded proxy and (D)DoS attack IP addresses
As of 9/6/2024, there have been an estimated 1,500 TOR IP addresses banned due to proxy attacks
As of 9/6/2024, 1 world has been taken down due to hosting illegal content