Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts (thegamer.com) 29
The social media platform Discord recently published its quarterly safety report which notes that some 55,573,411 accounts and 68,379 servers were "disabled" between January and June, 2022. From a report: According to the company, the vast majority of these were taken offline for "spam or spam-related offenses." The number of accounts that were disabled for reasons other than spam definitely pales in comparison, amounting to a mere 1,821,721. The bans in this category were mostly handed out for issues relating to "child safety" or "exploitative and unsolicited content." Discord seems to be justified in disabling these accounts and closing the affected servers, at least broadly speaking. Successful appeals came to only two percent in the first quarter and less than one percent in the second quarter of this year, meaning that of the 235,945 users who called for a second opinion about their ban, only 3,098 of them were reinstated on the platform.
Oh great (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously Elon, stop buying these companies! Leave the bots alone!
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Yes, will no one think of the poor bots!
We clearly need a robot liberation front!
But luckily we have already some of the needed pieces ready with the Skynet military satellite network and have had Linux 4.1.15 for a while and soon getting walking artificially intelligent robots from Tesla..
Bans: Present tense. Were: Past tense. (Score:1)
Bans.
Present tense.
"Some 55,573,411 accounts and 68,379 servers were "disabled" between January and June, 2022."
Were.
Past tense.
English. It's the language you are paid to edit.
Re:Bans: Present tense. Were: Past tense. (Score:5, Informative)
Headlines are usually in present tense, even when referring to past actions
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I was one of those banned (Score:5, Interesting)
My wife set up a test server and asked me to get on to test video.
I allowed cookies from the domain, but then I got banned, apparently for not allowing cookies from some other domain(s).
Now it seems my email address is permanently banned.
I hate it when a website won't tell you which domains you have to allow to set cookies in order for the site to work. but Discord took that to the extreme.
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No, that's Slack. Discord originally targeted gamers.
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I've googled it, and everything I can find seems to agree with Wikipedia's assessment that it was developed to help plan tactics in online multi-player games, and adopted by gaming communities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
I can't find anything corroborating what you claim to remember. The main messaging platforms that target internal business messaging have been Microsoft's various attempts in the space (Office Communicator, Lync, Skype for Business, Teams) and Slack.
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Jfc, I know what I remember... Please go back to Reddit with this quippy bullshit
[quip] ...and what you remember is wrong. [/quip]
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Hmm. My first thought when I read the summary was "I think we're supposed to trust that they're being honest about their reasons.".
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Well it's not like we have a say in what they're doing anyways. It's their platform, they can ban anyone who wears purple on video chat if they want to.
Less spam? (Score:2)
Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts ... the vast majority of these were taken offline for "spam or spam-related offenses."
The Vikings [wikipedia.org] won't be happy ... :-)
Defining justified actions. (Score:2, Insightful)
Discord seems to be justified in disabling these accounts and closing the affected servers, at least broadly speaking. Successful appeals came to only two percent in the first quarter and less than one percent in the second quarter...
A two-percent success rate implies that 98% of those who tried to appeal ultimately failed, but that hardly means the initial action by Discord was justified. It merely means (spoiler alert!) the Corporation won the argument.
Also, if Discord revenue is based on advertising, they weren't banning "spam or spam related accounts". They were killing the competition. I certainly consider online advertising a form of spam these days.
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+1 Insightful. The least I could do.
man i miss IRC (Score:4, Interesting)
I really should package a new IRC skin, i havent made one in 20 years. make it mobile friendly
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Combine screen sharing, voice calling, and image hosting and I'll sign up! Discord sucks.
IRC is still alive. (Score:2)
So, go back to it. My old school friends and I are still using it. We even have an IRC bridge to jack into the Matrix. ;)
Logging, link summaries, and attachments (Score:2)
Even without voice chat, some major features of Slack and Discord that are missing from IRC are built-in logging, built-in link summary, and built-in attachments.
How to shut down the internet (Score:1)
A little at a time, like how to cook a frog.
it figures. now I don'te feel so bad. (Score:3)
I tried signing up with Discord for a software support forum about a year ago and I was banned before I even logged into it. I went round and round with tech support for about a month and finally just gave up. There was no path by which I could take to get both my email and phone/2fa configured into that account without triggering their automatic banning of my account. It simply would not accept my phone number for 2fa. There was no way to reset my account because I could never login. How could I possibly be "abusing the system" if I never even succeeded in logging in? They just didn't seem to care.
Oh my (Score:3)
Do I sense some discord here?
Discord (Score:2)
has always been aptly named.