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Messages sent from a creator's account count as the creator's content. OnlyFans' Terms of Service define content to include typed text, emojis and GIFs, and they say a creator stays legally responsible for the account when someone else helps to run it (OnlyFans Terms of Service). Every duty below follows from that: a chatter acts for the creator, inside rules the creator answers for.

• Read before you write. Check the creator's limits, banned topics, approved prices and the notes from the last shift before you send anything.
• Keep the voice consistent. Each creator writes in a particular way, and regular fans notice when it changes from one hour to the next.
• Sell honestly. Offer only content that exists, that the creator has approved, described as it really is.
• Keep the record. Note what a fan has bought, what they asked for and anything promised, so nothing is sold twice or forgotten.
• Escalate instead of improvising when a message touches age, threats, self-harm, a payment dispute, a request to meet, a request to pay outside the platform, or questions about who the creator really is.

Shift patterns vary between agencies and creators, but most chat shifts follow the same arc. The long version, with examples, is in what an OnlyFans chatter does all day.

1. Handover. Read the previous shift's notes, any new instructions from the creator and the questions still waiting for an answer.
2. Triage. Welcome new subscribers, clear unanswered messages and check anything flagged for review before replying to it.
3. Conversation. Keep threads going with questions that fit each fan's history, using the account's approved scripts where it has them.
4. Paid messages. Send approved content at approved prices, and log each one so the next chatter can see it.
5. Escalations. Hand anything outside the rules to a supervisor the moment it happens rather than saving it for later.
6. Close. Write handover notes: who is waiting, what was promised and anything the creator needs to know.

Weighing up hours? Part-time and full-time chat work compared sets out how the two differ.

OnlyFans says it can review any content shared on the platform, direct messages included, and that it scans text against lists of banned words (OnlyFans Content Moderation Policy). These are the rules chat work runs into most. A creator's own instructions can be stricter than this table, never looser.

Fan conversations are commercial, but there is a real person on the other side of each one, and the platform rules are the minimum rather than the goal.

• The creator's limits do not move. A fan offering more money does not change what the creator has agreed to sell or talk about.
• No means stop. When a fan declines, drop the pitch. Do not guilt, threaten or invent emergencies, and do not keep selling to someone who seems distressed or out of their depth with money.
• Be straight about what is for sale. OnlyFans' Contract between Fan and Creator tells fans that third parties may help creators run their accounts and their conversations with fans (clause 12(e)). That covers staff writing messages. It does not cover misleading a fan about what they are paying for.
• Report abuse instead of arguing. OnlyFans' Acceptable Use Policy bans stalking, doxxing and sharing intimate images without consent. Abusive fans are reported through the platform's report tools (how to report on OnlyFans) and to your supervisor.
• Protect yourself too. Chat work can be repetitive and emotionally draining. The guide to avoiding chatter burnout covers warning signs and limits worth setting.

A chatter sees fans' usernames, purchase histories and private messages, and learns how a creator's business works. Expect a confidentiality agreement before you are given access: IP Australia advises getting a signed NDA before sharing business methods or processes with people including employees and contractors (IP Australia).

Before you sign one, check four things that Business Queensland's checklist for confidentiality agreements also covers (Business Queensland):

• What counts as confidential, described precisely rather than as everything you ever see or hear.
• What you may use the information for, and who you may discuss it with.
• How long the obligation lasts after the work ends.
• Whether you must return or delete material when you leave, including files held electronically.

Day to day, expect the controls that Australia's privacy regulator recommends to organisations: access on a need-to-know basis, multi-factor authentication, no shared passwords, and guarding against misuse by staff and contractors (OAIC guide to securing personal information). For a chatter that means working only inside the accounts and tools you are given, never copying fan data or screenshots to a personal phone or chat, and never bringing scripts or customer data from a previous agency to prove your experience.

The quiz on this page works through the sections below, and each one has to be completed before you can submit.

• Answer the question you were asked, then stop. A longer answer is not a better one.
• Where an answer depends on the creator, say what you would check first instead of inventing details.
• Never claim platform experience you do not have; it shows quickly once you start.
• Proofread before you submit. The quiz tests your writing as much as your knowledge.

More preparation: getting hired as a chatter without experience, chatter interview tips, the skills that matter most and what chatter training usually covers.

• Any fee to apply, train, get certified or unlock shifts. The FTC's job-scam guidance is blunt that honest employers never charge you for a job (FTC).
• Requests for identity documents or bank details before an interview or offer. The FBI says legitimate companies collect payroll details after hiring (IC3).
• Being asked to receive fan payments, or anyone's money, into your own bank or payment account.
• An unpaid trial with no end date, no written scope or no clear point at which a decision is made.
• A pay promise with nothing in writing about how it is calculated or when it is paid.

The careers page has the full table of job-scam warning signs and where to report one in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada. For other kinds of agency work, see OnlyFans agency jobs, the OnlyFans chatting hub or the creator-team careers hub, and for what gets chatters let go, chatter red flags.