Discord bans me for using their official client

Re:Discord bans me for using their official client by judge2020 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:07PM (#25215299)

While we won't get to know the full story and the entire history of this person's Discord account (to side with him one way or the other), this piece still serves to show the downsides of a centralized service which has to do its own abuse management - and at discord's scale[0], there's bound to be a lot of mistakes.

On a side-note, running a modded client (like Better Discord) at any time is a risk to your account. Some people have reported getting banned for year-old messages that used a plugin which allowed creating embeds inside the discord client (you otherwise can't create custom embeds on a non-bot account)[1].

0: https://discord.com/company#app-mount:~:text=Our%20metrics

1: https://github.com/Fraserbc/BetterDiscord-Embeds#user-conten...

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Re:Discord bans me for using their official client by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:15PM (#25215374)

> show the downsides of a centralized service which has to do its own abuse management

And platforms that have no censorship also have downsides. There’s no perfect solution.

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Re:Discord bans me for using their official client by threatofrain on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:53PM (#25215926)

And when others shame, criticize, or shun you for your speech, people also consider that within the framing of censorship. The only speech which is safe from blowback is to yourself.

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