And LGBT communities. The reason discord attracts both crowds is that they can safely and easily exclude each other. Sure, /r/the_donald is in discord and use

And LGBT communities. The reason discord attracts both crowds is that they can safely and easily exclude each other. Sure, /r/the_donald is in discord and uses it to coordinate raids and harassment, but they perform those raids on Reddit and Twitter, where making a sockpuppet takes five seconds and you can instantly yell and vote at anyone on the whole site. You can't target a discord like that, you need an invite that mods can revoke or stop issuing at any time, or use hierarchical user privileges to hinder new accounts, or any number of other moderation steps.