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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by sillysaurusx on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:09PM (#28557642)
If they're making a point, I don't understand it. They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity. Any famous person will be acutely aware of how problematic it can be to "just join a server as your real identity."

I've had similar problems. I fully agree with the other commenter: if you have a point, just say it minus the cheek.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by ravi-delia on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:36PM (#28559190)
It was a point agreeing with the person they were replying too. The social rules of technical communities and informal gaming communities are very different, and the commenter highlighted that. I wouldn't want the same name in a technical and gaming community for basically that reason.
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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by martin_a on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:28AM (#28563085)
> They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity.

As mentioned in another comment: Quite the opposite.

Discord should easily allow to have completely separate identities with no connection to each other at all.

If that's not possible and there's the risk of mixing up my private life and whatnot with my work life, Discord should not be the place/service to use.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by stjohnswarts on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:16AM (#28562239)
You did miss the point then, they were not ridiculing the person they were pointing out how such a thing happens on discord.
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