The Worst Discord Mods...

Imagine Discord mods that think they work for Discord. Well with the recent development of Discord "security and safety" servers, Discord mods are trying to control more and more of Discord in some power hungry power trip. They ask people to report users to their server to try and protect people. However this idea is critically flawed and can result in some pretty heated drama.

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Reporting to Discord TOS

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Discord Server

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00:00 - Security / Safety Servers
00:54 - Power Tripping Time
01:14 - Issues
04:49 - Really Bad Issues

[NoTextToSpeech]

Heyo gamers, obviously please don't harass these individuals. If you want to do something, tell your friends that if they need to report something, report it to Discord trust and safety. At the end of the day, these guys are trying to do something good but it just fails miserably.

With respect to ScammerAlert, be prepared for a paragraph cause these people are driving me up the wall. ScammerAlert focuses on the grey area part of Discord. Since Discord won't care if you got scammed trying to buy cheap nitro, ScammerAlert tries to be the solution. From their community of users, they claim to be the most transparent. And from the collection of our police academy of idiots, they are the most competent. However, fundamentally you are relying on the systems and staff in place to ensure your safety on the platform. With trust it takes time to build and seconds to ruin and my hypothetical example of being scammed by a staff member is trying to illustrate that point. Apparently staff have been banned before but who's to say it won't happen again. ScammerAlert is a lot like SteamRep, it's hella useful if you are in that market. But SteamRep had it's own issues despite it trying to fill a similar gap.

The Caelen fella was not a part of LOA Safety Center but was a part of SafetyTree. Not entirely important in the context of the video but I should make that clear.

[elementalwispie]

In the LOA safety center, someone called to ban a guy who made reasonable arguments and I replied to it with just the Chinese flag and my message was deleted 💀

[Happyyyyyyyyyyy]

this reminds me of a minecraft thing that people did to fight hackers... a plugin that checks on a database to see if a person was banned on a server that used it, if he was banned on 3 servers he wouldnt be able to join any other server, so the people that got banned (a griefing group) decided to ban the owner after they themself started hosting servers just to ban a lot of people lmao *This wont go good is what i wanna say*

[teteeheeted]

Ok funny idea: report each staff on *other* security servers, and do that until each staff members is banned on the other servers, and watch the chaos unfold

[IanisPeein]

no way ntts used the picture of that cop who had a sex scandal

[iozok]

Great video! I looked into it, a few servers were deleted and on ScammerAlert they marked the scammers as the Scammer role.

[bonkmaykr]

We've seen a concept like this tried before. There used to be a Minecraft server plugin that kept track of bans across all servers using the plugin and would ban you from all of them. And whaddya know, it got discontinued because the owner of the blacklist was abusing it to punish people for no reason and give himself immunity.

[L_T_S_]

Once upon a time I actually was involved in a project such as this, almost 7 years ago now, so it's not a new idea.
I won't go into much detail but it started off as a simple automatic raid detection/prevention bot, the bot was I think in around 8 to 10 thousand servers by that point. The owner had an idea to make this sort of system where people report bad actors to a team who would investigate claims and approve or deny adding to the global banlist. I didn't get involved with that straight away and from my perspective from the beginning it was starting to show a lot of flaws, bias, corruption, or just bad management overall as you would expect from a bunch of dumb teens. I eventually just left since I didn't want to be associated with it anymore, not sure what happened to it. I remember some Discord staff member had talked with the owner before so maybe Discord was aware? However that's just speculation.
Overall is there any use for a system like this? Globally, no, plain stupid. Shared bans between sibling servers could work but that's not what they are about.
Pointless for me to even write about it but just sharing some memory.

[sparkypikachu]

Who knew giving a bunch of power to discord mods was such a bad idea? I am just *astonished* that a platform with the most undeniably social ppl would have troubble with mods being biased like this. /j

Great video btw! It's noice

[surpriseman]

that banning from an amount of servers reminds me of something people made in the past to ban people from some servers on minecraft

[BiBiren]

They even have corporate-like positions thinking they have a job. I assure you, they do one quick google search on this and this is what they got. They are like Reddit mods who think that they contribute to society.

[arandombaguette]

I have had a previous experience with mod role abuse. However it was pretty humorous and the mod team as a whole has a good laugh abt it.
Baisicly one of the newer mods was getting frustrated with how when one of the chats was muted, ppl used reactions instead… the mod said the next person to react will be muted. I will admit, I poked the bear here. I reacted with an ok symbol and thumbs up. I was muted for a grand total of 2 weeks. However I was a pretty senior member, so one of the senior mods intervened, and had a bit of a laugh. I got a temporary role that allowed me to /moot ppl, (Baisicly it gave the message for muting spelled incorrectly, and had an “appeal” link, that was just a rickroll, it also pretty clearly stated it wasn’t a real mute, but it was still pretty funny)

[FriendAndGamer]

Really liked your video, very informative and gave plenty of awareness. I am too a owner of a small server, should always remain aware of such scams. Keep making such videos ! ✌🏻

[SethizFTW]

Similarly saw this kind of power house behavior with the Minecraft Physics Mod creator. In his discord server people ask if him selling the pro version of the mod is against EULA, his response to those people either make no sense or is very toxic. One funny example I can give was someone asked and the creator responded "this is not the place to talk about this" then the guy asked where can be talk about it and I promise you the creator said "idk".

[SamiTheAnxiousBean]

i do like the concept of these servers (As in, a server to get offenders banned on all servers with their bot after you reported them to discord cause let's be honest, they'll prob get it done faster then discord notices your reports and offically bans them)

however....where it falls apart is the fact discord users are rule-ing it
....who powertrip SO HARD for no reason whatsoever

and ofcourse, are currupt, bias, and are hypocritical as hell

assuming you don't actually just contact those servers without contacting discord themselves first

[packwolf]

The only thing I've seen like this that makes sense is with dayz server discords- since most of their transgressions are in-game, having a conglomerate of servers that get together and put huge offenders that consistently break multiple servers rules on a list so server owners both old and new can protect their servers, is good.

[josh-jesushexandstonks]

Funniest thing is, if they took actually starting a business this seriously, they could actually be making some dough instead of just looking like some

[ExistingBone]

Imagine being in an anty scam server that doesn't deal with stuff against the TOS, while scamming is against the TOS

[SauceyRedHN]

I think it’s a cool concept; it’s a temporary solution before Discord Trust & Safety actually does something. I’m sure something like this can be done with a greater degree of success by people who aren’t idiots.

[KittenKatja]

0:35 That's how MC Bans worked, except you can't remove bans off your account, even when the server no longer exists, and the people on other servers don't out right ban you, they get warned by the system that someone joined they need to keep an eye on.