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Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by pmarreck on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:53PM (#15876781)
PTT is useful when you don’t want everyone else on your channel to hear your breathing, coughing and keyboard-clacking

(can you tell I’ve played Overwatch?)

Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by eropple on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:54AM (#15877161)
Yeah - there are games for which I will use voice activation, like PUBG (where I do not have the mental availability to hit a PTT key), but for Overwatch I started with PTT with one of the thumb buttons on my mouse and I still do it.

That said, I use a for-realsies dynamic microphone with tons of off-axis rejection and a wall-mounted arm (I play games in my office/recording space, that's the engineer station mic). So I probably could use voice detection and be fine. But habits die hard.

Re:As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard by rhcom2 on Friday December 08, 2017 @10:57AM (#15879543)
> keyboard-clacking

The rise of mechanical keyboards has made PTT practically the only option. Otherwise you just hear little clicking all the time.