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Discord bans me for using their official client

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Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by atian »

pyr0hu wrote: post #9
atian wrote: post #4

The author seems to have used the auth from the official client for some application. Discord indiscriminately bans due to API abuse.

What? The author used the QR scan feature from the official Discord mobile app to try to log in on the desktop client.

> After closing maybe around seven of them, Discord booted me back to the login screen.

This seems to have occurred after the account was banned.

Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by sour-taste »

Whenever it comes to gaming I just assume anyone saying they've been banned unfairly deserved it. League, Dota, FPSs, and discord too apparently all have this weird group of people who get banned for doing shady shit then go on forums and complain. People being banned from services unfairly (and without explanation) is a real problem, that doesn't mean that everytime someone complains they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by judge2020 »

> Discord did not deign to reply to my last ticket at all, but I'm filing another one today

This doesn't do much anyways. Whether it be Discord or any other support helpdesk, their tier 1 support will just merge the new request into your already-existing request and you're back to square one in getting a reply. After doing this enough times they might just completely block your email since it really is spam at that point.

Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by snuffaluffagus »

ubercow13 wrote: post #16
snuffaluffagus wrote: post #12

10166788 what does this mean? some sort of timestamp? date? Timestamp 1016678800 Time (UTC) Thu Mar 21 02:46:40 2002 UTC Time (-0800) Wed Mar 20 18:46:40 2002 -0800

It's a support ticket number

::tips hat::

Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by jolmg »

danuker wrote: post #3

You mention GDPR. You do have a right to your data as per EU rules. Feel free to talk with your state data protection authority.

This might have been downvoted because it seems the user in the US, and the company is also in the US. GDPR doesn't seem to apply here. Or maybe you were being sarcastic by saying "state data protection authority", but it's not obvious enough.

Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by yborg »

stormcode wrote: post #6
danuker wrote: post #2

Time to check out Mastodon, Pleroma, and other distributed social networks. Walled gardens with chilling suppression begone!

Mastodon can de-platform you just as easily as Discord if they don't like what you say.

>Mastodon is run by "them"

That's not how federation works.

Re: Discord bans me for using their official client

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Post by sitharus »

stormcode wrote: post #6
danuker wrote: post #2

Time to check out Mastodon, Pleroma, and other distributed social networks. Walled gardens with chilling suppression begone!

Mastodon can de-platform you just as easily as Discord if they don't like what you say.

No more so than any random website. Mastodon is a federated platform, so find an instance that allows you to say what you want to.
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