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Author Topic: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour  (Read 14717 times)

GeekyBugle

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Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« on: March 01, 2022, 03:52:58 PM »
Like the tin says, Discord changed it's TOS and now will ban people for Off-Site "hateful" behaviour.

Before anyone says they can't possibly police us all, they don't need to, all it takes is a blue haired landwhale reporting you and kiss your online RPG game goodbye.

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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2022, 04:35:06 PM »
Just unplug from Twatter and Farcebook where the landwhales roam and you’ll both avoid the gaze of those miserable wretches and put another dent in those cesspools’ bottom lines. If enough people do it, they might even notice.

Also, don’t invite anyone you haven’t vetted elsewhere onto your private gaming channels… but that’s just good practice anyway.

ETA: if you haven’t already, just change/use a different profile name on each of the social media platforms so they can’t link the accounts as easily.
« Last Edit: March 01, 2022, 04:42:11 PM by Chris24601 »

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2022, 04:41:53 PM »
Just unplug from Twatter and Farcebook where the landwhales roam and you’ll both avoid the gaze of those miserable wretches and put another dent in those cesspools’ bottom lines. If enough people do it, they might even notice.

Also, don’t invite anyone you haven’t vetted elsewhere onto your private gaming channels… but that’s just good practice anyway.

So cut off from all social media because Discord and also somehow vet people before inviting them to your discord (how without social media?).

I've a better solution, dump Discord and migrate to https://www.guilded.gg/
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2022, 05:10:02 PM »
If you think Twitter and Facebook = “all social media” then you’ve already lost and have conceded to giving money (adrev) to people who hate you.

Unplug from all of it… I use Gab instead of Twitter, the Brave browser and BraveSearch instead of Google, Rumble in place of YouTube, here instead of TBP… never even used Facebook to begin with. I research on and pay extra for things made in the USA (North America failing that, not China failing that).

I’ll investigate sharedd.gg to see if it’s actually pro-free speech and if it is, add it to my list.

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2022, 05:21:20 PM »
Just make sure to build up your social credit score, citizen, and you'll be fine!

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2022, 05:23:58 PM »
  Well...about gab....I went on there to see what was going on, and it looked like a shit show, with some "interesting" videos spammed.   

  Discord though...well it seems that whole social credit thing people had concerns over are filtering into gamer life.  I have used their chat for an online video game, but never anything past that, though the guys whose channel I am on do have a D&D game they run on there.   I wonder how long till one of them gets in trouble (most of the guys are people I barely know, and they are younger and like to pop out an edgy joke from time to time) and it comes to bite them.

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2022, 05:25:52 PM »
Just make sure to build up your social credit score, citizen, and you'll be fine!

  You beat me to the punch on that one.  Does seem a little ominous.  I am sure there will be a build your own call going out again...just no hosting on any of the mega giants that more or less own the various cloud computing networks.

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2022, 05:57:27 PM »
Just unplug from Twatter and Farcebook where the landwhales roam and you’ll both avoid the gaze of those miserable wretches and put another dent in those cesspools’ bottom lines. If enough people do it, they might even notice.

Also, don’t invite anyone you haven’t vetted elsewhere onto your private gaming channels… but that’s just good practice anyway.

So cut off from all social media because Discord and also somehow vet people before inviting them to your discord (how without social media?).

I've a better solution, dump Discord and migrate to https://www.guilded.gg/

Or; In-Person Gaming, around a Real Table.
Let the Dice, Decide the Outcome.  Accept the Results.

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2022, 06:00:53 PM »
Just make sure to build up your social credit score, citizen, and you'll be fine!

That won't be done, on my part.  Online life isn't essential.  I promise, we can live without it.
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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2022, 07:28:56 PM »
Just unplug from Twatter and Farcebook where the landwhales roam and you’ll both avoid the gaze of those miserable wretches and put another dent in those cesspools’ bottom lines. If enough people do it, they might even notice.

Also, don’t invite anyone you haven’t vetted elsewhere onto your private gaming channels… but that’s just good practice anyway.

So cut off from all social media because Discord and also somehow vet people before inviting them to your discord (how without social media?).

I've a better solution, dump Discord and migrate to https://www.guilded.gg/

Or; In-Person Gaming, around a Real Table.

That'll be easy for my current group: The DM is in the UK, 3 players in the USA (1 in Texas and the other two who knows where) and I'm in México.  :-
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2022, 07:30:18 PM »
If you think Twitter and Facebook = “all social media” then you’ve already lost and have conceded to giving money (adrev) to people who hate you.

Unplug from all of it… I use Gab instead of Twitter, the Brave browser and BraveSearch instead of Google, Rumble in place of YouTube, here instead of TBP… never even used Facebook to begin with. I research on and pay extra for things made in the USA (North America failing that, not China failing that).

I’ll investigate sharedd.gg to see if it’s actually pro-free speech and if it is, add it to my list.

If you think blue haired landwhales won't go fishing on those other places to find people to purge from Discord...
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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2022, 07:31:12 PM »
Just make sure to build up your social credit score, citizen, and you'll be fine!

That won't be done, on my part.  Online life isn't essential.  I promise, we can live without it.

Don't worry, they're developing government controlled digital currency to better control you.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

― George Orwell

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2022, 07:43:26 PM »
Just unplug from Twatter and Farcebook where the landwhales roam and you’ll both avoid the gaze of those miserable wretches and put another dent in those cesspools’ bottom lines. If enough people do it, they might even notice.

Also, don’t invite anyone you haven’t vetted elsewhere onto your private gaming channels… but that’s just good practice anyway.

So cut off from all social media because Discord and also somehow vet people before inviting them to your discord (how without social media?).

I've a better solution, dump Discord and migrate to https://www.guilded.gg/

Option 1: Get rid of Twitter and Facebook.

Option 2: Get rid of Discord.

Option 3:

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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2022, 09:50:45 PM »
Fix the fact Discord is quickly becoming the wold's primary source for malware? Nah. We haven't had a Great Leap Forward recently; lets carouse around the internet looking for justifications to ban people we don't like.


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Re: Discord to ban you for off-site "hateful" behaviour
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2022, 11:40:26 PM »
Discord is shit software that sucks up computer RAM like a Chrome browser. No loss.
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