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Content Tags

When you publish a world or avatar you tell Social Scape what's in it: a maturity rating and a set of safety tags for things like flashing lights, loud audio, or combat. These tags decide who your content is shown to and warn players what to expect before they load it. This page covers every tag, where you set it, and what it does.

Where you set them

Tags live on the first page of the publish form — Step 1 of 3, "Safety & tags" — that opens when you upload from Social Scape ▸ Content Manager. Flip the toggles that apply, then move on to the details and upload steps.

You see the maturity rating on every upload. Below it you see either the avatar safety tags or the world safety tags, matched to what you're publishing — an avatar upload never shows world tags, and the reverse.

Re-uploads keep your tags

When you re-upload existing content, the form pre-fills its current rating and tags from your last upload, so you only change what's different. See Worlds and Avatars.

The maturity rating

The rating is one decision — is this content NSFW? — with two optional sub-tags that say why.

Toggle What it means
This content is NSFW Marks the whole world or avatar as mature. Leave it off for content anyone can see (the default).
Suggestive Sub-tag: the content is suggestive. Only meaningful with NSFW on.
Nudity Sub-tag: the content contains nudity. Only meaningful with NSFW on.

Everything you don't mark NSFW is treated as safe-for-work and shown to everyone.

Safety tags

Safety tags describe specific things in your content that a player might want to know about before they enter — whether or not it's mature. Turn on the ones that apply; leave the rest off.

On an avatar

Toggle Turn it on when your avatar…
Loud audio can play sound at a jarring volume.
Long-range audio plays sound that carries far across a world, not just up close.
Spawn audio makes noise the moment it loads, before anyone interacts with it.
Screen FX can draw full-screen visual effects over a viewer's view.
Flashing colors uses rapidly changing colors.
Flashing lights uses strobing or rapidly flashing lights (a photosensitivity risk).
Particle systems emits particle effects.
Violence depicts violence.
Gore depicts gore.
Excessively huge is far larger than a normal player.
Excessively small is far smaller than a normal player.

On a world

Toggle Turn it on when your world…
Screen FX can draw full-screen visual effects over a player's view.
Flashing colors uses rapidly changing colors.
Flashing lights uses strobing or rapidly flashing lights (a photosensitivity risk).
Particle systems uses heavy particle effects.
Violence depicts violence.
Gore depicts gore.
Combat system has combat — health, damage, or weapons. See Combat, health & respawn.
Minigame contains a minigame.

Your tags are checked on our servers

The toggles in the SDK are a convenience for you — they aren't the source of truth. When you upload, Social Scape's servers re-check your rating and tags against the known set before your content goes live. Two things follow from that:

  • Unrecognized tags are dropped. Only real safety and maturity tags are kept on your listing.
  • The rating fails to the safe side. If the maturity rating can't be read as a clear "safe" value, it's treated as NSFW, never quietly downgraded. You can't make mature content look safe by fiddling with the upload.

Tag honestly

Before you can reach the upload step you tick "The tags are accurate" and "I own or have rights to this content." These are commitments, not formalities — deliberately mislabeling content (hiding an NSFW avatar, omitting flashing lights) can get the content or your account actioned. When in doubt, tag it.

How tags change who sees your content

Your rating decides your content's reach:

  • NSFW content is hidden by default. A world you rate NSFW doesn't appear in the world browser for a player until they turn on mature content themselves. Rate a world NSFW and you're choosing a smaller, opted-in audience.
  • Mature content is badged. An NSFW world shows an 18+ badge on its browser card, so players know before they open it. (Protected content shows an AEGIS badge alongside it — see Aegis content protection.)

Safety tags travel with your listing so a player knows what they're walking into — the flashing-lights warning, the note that a world runs a combat system. They don't hide your content the way the NSFW rating does; they inform the people who find it.

The rating is about reach, the safety tags are about warning

Think of the NSFW rating as who can find your content, and the safety tags as what to expect once they do. Set both as truthfully as you can — accurate tags get your work to the right players and keep it out of the wrong feeds.