How to Report a Discord Server
The in-app report covers messages. Reporting the server itself is a web form that wants evidence you have to collect first.
Reporting a whole server goes through Discord's support site, not through the app. Open support.discord.com, submit a Trust and Safety request, and give the server ID plus links to specific messages.
Both of those need Developer Mode enabled first, in Discord's settings under Advanced. With it on, right-clicking a server or a message offers Copy Server ID and Copy Message Link.
Without those two pieces, the report cannot be investigated and will be closed.
Reporting an individual message is different and much simpler: right-click the message and choose Report, which exists inside the app.
The evidence requirement is the whole difference between a report that goes somewhere and one that does not, and it is worth being concrete about why.
Discord cannot read a private server. Trust and Safety does not browse communities looking for problems and cannot search inside one on a hunch. When a report arrives, what they can examine is whatever the report points at — specific messages, by link.
A message link encodes the server, the channel and the message, which is why it is the unit of evidence. Given one, Discord can retrieve that message and its context. Given a description of what somebody said last week, they can do nothing.
So the practical sequence is: enable Developer Mode, collect the message links before anything is deleted, copy the server ID, and then file. Doing it in the other order usually means the content is gone — servers that attract reports also delete fast.
Screenshots are worth attaching and are not sufficient on their own. A screenshot proves nothing to a platform that can be shown a forgery, and Discord says as much. They are useful as context alongside links, not instead of them.
The other half of this: reports are reviewed against Discord's own Community Guidelines, not against whether the server is unpleasant. A server with rules you dislike, moderators who banned you, or an argument you lost is not a Trust and Safety matter, and those reports are closed without a reply.
Turning on Developer Mode
Open User Settings — the gear beside your name — then Advanced in the left menu, and switch on Developer Mode.
This adds Copy ID options to right-click menus throughout the app: on servers, channels, messages and users.
It is a display setting and changes nothing else. It can be switched off afterwards.
On mobile the setting is in the same place, under Advanced in user settings, and the equivalent is a long press rather than a right-click.
Collecting the evidence
Right-click the server icon in the left rail and choose Copy Server ID. That is a long number and it is what identifies the community.
For each message that demonstrates the problem, right-click it and choose Copy Message Link. Collect several rather than one — a pattern is what gets acted on, a single message rarely is.
Do this before reporting. Content in servers under scrutiny disappears quickly, and a link to a deleted message is still useful to Discord but far less so.
Also note the usernames and user IDs of the accounts involved, which the same right-click menu provides.
Filing the report
Go to support.discord.com and submit a request, choosing the Trust and Safety category.
The form asks what you are reporting, for the server ID, for message links, and for a description. Keep the description factual and short — what happened, which guideline it breaks, where the links show it.
You will get an automated acknowledgement with a ticket number. Replies to that email add to the ticket.
Outcomes are not usually disclosed. A server being removed is visible to its members; nothing is sent to the reporter.
What Discord acts on
Content involving minors, which is handled urgently and should be reported through the dedicated route rather than the general form.
Harassment campaigns, doxxing, and threats of violence.
Servers dedicated to breaking the guidelines — selling stolen accounts, distributing malware, coordinating raids on other servers.
And ban evasion, where a removed community reconstitutes itself.
What they do not act on: disagreements, moderation decisions inside a server, servers you find distasteful, and arguments between members that do not cross into harassment.
The in-app report, which covers most situations
Right-click a message and choose Report. This is available to everybody and does not require Developer Mode or the web form.
It sends the message and its context to Discord, and it is the right tool for a single piece of content rather than a pattern.
For problems inside a server you are a member of, the server's own moderators are usually faster and more effective than Discord, because they can act immediately and Discord cannot.
And for a member who is simply unpleasant, blocking them removes their messages from your view without involving anybody.
Questions people ask about reporting on Discord
Where do I report a whole Discord server?
At support.discord.com, as a Trust and Safety request. The in-app report covers individual messages only.
How do I get a server ID?
Enable Developer Mode in User Settings under Advanced, then right-click the server icon and choose Copy Server ID.
Are screenshots enough?
No. Discord needs message links, which encode the server, channel and message. Screenshots are useful as context alongside them, not instead.
Will I be told what happened?
Usually not. You get a ticket acknowledgement, and outcomes are rarely disclosed. A removed server is visible to its members.
Does Discord act on bad moderation?
No. Moderation decisions inside a server belong to its owners. Trust and Safety handles guideline breaches, not disputes.
Is reporting anonymous?
Discord does not pass your identity to the server's owners. The report is between you and Discord.
Keep reading
- members for a Discord server — Credible communities are the ones people stay in, and the first problem for any new server is that nobody joins an empty one — which is what members for a Discord server is aimed at.
- how servers and roles are structured — Permissions decide who can do what, and how servers and roles are structured covers the model.
- moderating your own server — If the problem is in a community you run rather than one you visit, moderating your own server is the relevant article.