>but that's irrelevant because the services that require your phone number don't do it for the sake of security or to combat bots Discord allows you to enable

>but that's irrelevant because the services that require your phone number don't do it for the sake of security or to combat bots Discord allows you to enable phone number verification at a per-admin level basis; and it is done to reduce spam and bots. You can't just pretend the problem doesn't exist.