What we keep, and what we don’t.

The 18+ commands can learn from what you like. Nothing is stored until you press Like or Dislike on a result in an age-restricted channel, after you have already confirmed you are 18 or older. That first press is the opt in, and it covers you alone.

Each signal keeps your Discord user id, the source the post came from, the post id, the post’s public tags, whether you liked or disliked it, and the time. A running score per tag is worked out from those. What you searched for, message text, and the server or channel are not part of it.

Posts sent by autopost carry a like count and a dislike count as numbers on the Like and Dislike buttons. Each number covers the post across all of Akiko, never one person, and shows no names.

Posts that carry a tag on Akiko’s child-safety blocklist are never stored, and a tag added to that list later is removed from everyone’s data.

You can adjust a tag’s weight, pin it, mute it, remove it, or delete everything. That is available in Discord with /nsfw taste, or on the Taste memory page after you sign in. A pinned tag stops fading and stays until you change it or delete it. A muted tag is never used. New tags can only be added in Discord.

• Only you can see your own signals, through /nsfw taste, in a reply no one else can read. No command shows them to staff or other members.
• Your own likes and dislikes shape only what Akiko shows you. Anonymous counts, with no names, are also used to show vote totals and to choose which posts autopost sends. Not sold, not shared, not used for advertising, and not on any leaderboard.
• Those counts decide autopost too. A post that at least 5 different people have voted on, where at least 70 percent of the votes are dislikes, is skipped. A post with at least 5 votes and at least 70 percent likes is shown more often. This applies to every server’s autoposts and uses only the counts, never who voted.
• Counts of a tag shared by at least 20 different people can appear in a popular list, with no user ids.
• Older likes count for less unless a tag is pinned: weight halves roughly every 30 days, your newest 500 signals are the ones kept, and everything, pinned and muted tags included, is deleted after 180 days with no activity.
• You can see your top tags, remove any tag, or delete all of it at any time. Deleting removes the opt in too.

To stop banned users returning under a new account, we record your IP address when you complete web verification or sign in to the dashboard, whether that address belongs to a VPN, proxy, hosting provider, or Tor exit node, and basic browser characteristics during verification (user agent, language, platform, timezone, screen size, reported processor count) along with a short code derived from them, used to spot automated browsers and to stop someone else completing your link.

This detects when several accounts share a network, which works across servers because an address is not tied to any one of them. A server can switch on alt detection. When it does, that server’s moderators are told when a joining account appears to share a network with other accounts, and they are shown which accounts are involved, never the address. When someone finishes or is turned away at web verification, a server’s moderators can also be told that the connection looked unusual, for example that it came from a hosting network or Tor, again without the address.

Our web servers also keep ordinary request logs, and pages that exist only to catch scanners and bots record the address, the page asked for, and the request headers. An address that keeps probing those pages may be blocked for 24 hours. These logs are searched by address, not by account.

A server can also switch on the suspicious account filter in its automod settings. When it does, Akiko looks for several accounts joining within minutes with a similar name or the same profile picture, and for accounts Discord itself has marked as spam, and tells that server’s moderators so a person can look. It never bans, kicks or mutes anyone. To spot a group it keeps, in memory only and for about 15 minutes, a short scrambled code for each joiner’s name pattern and profile picture. It never keeps the name, the account ID or the picture, and nothing is written to our database. A server can also turn on an AI context note, which sends the username and display name of a joining account to TypeSafe, an AI service, when the name looks borderline. That note is off unless the server chooses it, and it can never cause a flag by itself.

• Moderators see derived results only: which accounts appear linked, and when. Never your address.
• Akiko’s operators can look up an account’s most recent address and the accounts linked to it from a private admin console. Every lookup is recorded.
• Not used for advertising, profiling, or location tracking.
• We do not try to work out where you physically are.
• The reputation provider gets the address alone, with no Discord identity attached.

;;data

View, export, or delete everything held against your account.

;;opt in / ;;opt out

Turn non-essential collection on or off.

/nsfw taste

See your top 18+ tags, remove one, or delete all of it. Deleting also turns the feature off.

Everything tied to your account: reminders, birthdays, AFK status, AI history and memory, economy and levels, profile data, tags, premium records, your stored email, and dashboard login addresses. We keep no separate copy for ourselves. Routine backups that were taken before you deleted can still hold a record until those backups are replaced on their normal rotation.

A few things survive, and we would rather be direct about why:

• Ban evasion links. Where your account is linked to another through a shared network, that link and the verification attempts it was worked out from keep their normal 90-day life instead of being erased on request. If deletion wiped them, anyone evading a ban could clear the evidence by asking for their data back.
• Server moderation records. Warnings, infractions, and bans belong to the server that issued them, not to us, and stay visible to that server’s staff.
• Web server logs and decoy sightings. These are recorded by address, not by account, so we cannot find yours to delete. They expire on their own schedule, 14 days and up to 90 days.

These are kept under legitimate interest for security and abuse prevention, used for nothing else, and shared with no one. Moderators still never see your IP address.