> "We're suffering from success and our Discord was the first casualty. You know as well as I do that if you gather 250k people in one spot someone is going to say something that makes you look bad. That room was golden and the people that run it are awesome. We blocked all bad words with a bot, which should be enough, but apparently if someone can say a bad word with weird unicode icelandic characters and someone can screenshot it you don't get to hang out with your friends anymore. Discord did us dirty and I am not impressed with them destroying our community"
I will admit that racist clubs aren’t for me. However since they are against me, my race, and the continued breathing of my family... I reserve the right to report them.
Racist groups start with talk, then inevitably end with burning crosses and dangling nooses.
I'm black, I didn't like seeing a guy say ni*er hundreds of times in charge of the place where WSB users end up, I reported it :)
(and don't give me some dumb bullshit about "wElL yOu GuYS sAy Ni*a" it's not the same no matter how upset that makes you)
Took a while but I'm glad it's gone :)
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I spent a lot of time on the main Discord that existed before this one (which most people had abandoned at the time since it was devoid of intelligent speech even by WSB)
WSB by it's nature has some rough edges, it's not the most politically correct place.
But a mod, a real mod with admin, not the joke WSB mod stuff... saying that stuff so much? Nah I'm going to report it.
WSB is on the edge of satire and outright toxicity but it toes the line fairly well.
That server was the opposite, mostly toxic (and not even in a humorous or satirical way) with very occasional coherency.
Did you read his post? He was active in the community. Was active in the one Discord server. Wanted to continue being active in the other, and saw all this racist crap.
... what? I did have an intention, the mod killed that intention.
I had enjoyed the other WSB discord very much, and was looking forward to a new server I'd enjoy and because of a jackass mod who say nig*er a lot I couldn't enjoy that.
So a very proportional response is to report the server they moderate!
I didn't lie, I didn't misconstrue anything, I said "this server has a moderator that spams nig*er very casually"
Are you defending that? Or blaming me for their behavior? Or faulting me for not liking that? Which is it?
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Because make no mistake, if this wasn't an admin level mod saying this I wouldn't report them. I even get the WSB "everyone is a mod" meme. And I get moderation is tough, things slip, that's life.
But when your admin says nig*er hundreds of times for fun... you're crossing a line.
Here's a thought experiment. In a few hours of coding, Google, Discord, Twitter, Facebook, etc. could all spin up map/reduce searches across all their channels, groups, links, results... for any wordlist you'd care to provide.
If a flagged word is used past a certain frequency, the channel can be closed, the page can be delisted, the accounts can be banned, or the site can be terminated. So clean, simple, and really quite easy.
They can even just start with the really really awful words if you like.
But they don't do this. Generally speaking they (at least historically) tend to support the ability of people to say Bad Things on the internet! You can even enter these Bad Words right into the front page of the world's biggest search engine and get hundreds of millions of hits in 0.33 seconds.
Yet somehow a channel of particular notoriety which is causing serious financial damage to some very Important People can disappear in an instant, maybe even right on the day of its peak exposure, and those trivially, easily, obviously detectable Bad Words can be blamed.
And no one even has to think too hard about if that was really what just happened here. Because who would ever step up, particularly in our current political environment, to say that anyone or any channel used to espouse such Bad Words (or Wrong Think) should be tolerated?
You know you can be against arbitrary and unfair enforcement and think it's good to act against bigoted speech, right?
The way you're talking about "Bad Words" sounds like you think discord should ignore these problems entirely. It solves the biased enforcement problem but it's a pretty awful way to do it.
> Generally speaking they (at least historically) tend to support the ability of people to say Bad Things on the internet!
Who is they? Discord has not been supportive of the ability to say arbitrary bad things on their hosting.
