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> They have moderation mentioned front and center, so that feels good to me that they kept it strongly in mind. What's annoying about this is it was sprung, de

> They have moderation mentioned front and center, so that feels good to me that they kept it strongly in mind. What's annoying about this is it was sprung, default on, with no warning. I'm a mod (not the owner) of a server that got them, and we weren't given the permissions to disable them from @everyone, only the admin can do that at first. And he's not currently been on because of time zone differences. Which means it's just an easy open vector for someone to come in an raid and just cause chaos. They should've had it off by default, at least for a few days to let server owners experiment and play around with it.

WorldMaker 5y ago
They've given that choice to servers that are labeled "Community Servers" at least (giving them until mid-August before it is forced on by default) which will help some of the largest servers, but yes they maybe should have given that a wider option to the medium/smaller servers too.
- dorchadas 5y ago
  Yep, we're a small server (~2700) that just randomly had it turned on. We've currently got about 10, just from random members thinking to test if they can create them. 10 that we can't delete. Thankfully nobody has tried to abuse it by naming any anything offensive, or mass creating them yet. Hopefully they won't before the admin gets back on when he wakes up.
  - WorldMaker 5y ago
    2700 users? I'd classify that as more than a "small" or a "medium" server myself. That's definitely in the range where setting it as a "Community Server" could be beneficial for a lot of other reasons.
    - dorchadas 5y ago
      What are these reasons? It's a pretty niche server, focusing on a specific language family, and I doubt the admin or the other moderators would really want it to be super available. We also have probably <20 really active users, which is probably why I would consider it small.
      - WorldMaker 5y ago
        Yeah, 20 active users would still feel small. That's fair. I probably wouldn't recommend a Community Server with only 20 active users. To answer your question, though: Community Servers get a couple more security and safety features that help with moderation. They get a "Welcome Screen" for helping new users not feel quite so lost on first joining the server. Discord is generally better about notifying Community Servers of upcoming updates and slower about rolling out new features to them (such as Threads). https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-E...

WorldMaker 5y ago

They've given that choice to servers that are labeled "Community Servers" at least (giving them until mid-August before it is forced on by default) which will help some of the largest servers, but yes they maybe should have given that a wider option to the medium/smaller servers too.

dorchadas 5y ago
Yep, we're a small server (~2700) that just randomly had it turned on. We've currently got about 10, just from random members thinking to test if they can create them. 10 that we can't delete. Thankfully nobody has tried to abuse it by naming any anything offensive, or mass creating them yet. Hopefully they won't before the admin gets back on when he wakes up.
- WorldMaker 5y ago
  2700 users? I'd classify that as more than a "small" or a "medium" server myself. That's definitely in the range where setting it as a "Community Server" could be beneficial for a lot of other reasons.
  - dorchadas 5y ago
    What are these reasons? It's a pretty niche server, focusing on a specific language family, and I doubt the admin or the other moderators would really want it to be super available. We also have probably <20 really active users, which is probably why I would consider it small.
    - WorldMaker 5y ago
      Yeah, 20 active users would still feel small. That's fair. I probably wouldn't recommend a Community Server with only 20 active users. To answer your question, though: Community Servers get a couple more security and safety features that help with moderation. They get a "Welcome Screen" for helping new users not feel quite so lost on first joining the server. Discord is generally better about notifying Community Servers of upcoming updates and slower about rolling out new features to them (such as Threads). https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-Enabling-Your-Community-Server https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-E...