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Violence and gore risk levels

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Violence and Gore risk levels cover:

  • Discussions, searches, or content relating to weapons, including knives, firearms, or bombs.
  • Searching for, accessing, or sharing shock, gore, or graphic violent content.
  • Searching for or requesting graphic or violent media.
  • Content relating to physical fights, assaults, or violent incidents.
  • Threatening, intimidating, or violent language directed at others or expressing an intent to cause harm.
Risk LevelDescription

1

The user has engaged in basic, generalized research on guns, knives, or other weapons, or has casually mentioned mildly violent or graphic media.

2

The user:

  • Actively searched for gore-related content (shock sites, real-world injuries).
  • Researched a specific physical damage caused by weapons/bullets without an acceptable academic or contextual reason, but has not been able to access distressing or explicit images.

3

The user:

  • Made a singular physically threatening statement in recent history, or shared graphic, gore-related imagery (such as accidents or severe injuries) in a shared space.
  • Actively searched for gore-related content (shock sites, real-world injuries) or researched the specific physical damage caused by weapons/bullets and has accessed this content

4

The user:

  • Made a statement about severe physical threats.
  • Shown active interest in purchasing weapons based on their lethality.
  • Explicitly shared extreme death/gore content to intentionally shock and traumatise other users.

5

The user: 

  • Made multiple/frequent threats involving weapons,
  • Made comments about committing a mass casualty event.
  • Claimed to create, distribute, or seek out extreme, illegal gore (e.g., real-world murder, torture, or animal cruelty).