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Unfortunately the existing discriminator system makes account impersonation incredibly easy on discord. You see a person on your server that looks like "Sean H
by seanhunter 4y ago
Unfortunately the existing discriminator system makes account impersonation incredibly easy on discord. You see a person on your server that looks like "Sean Hunter", they have the same profile pic etc but it's easy not to notice they are sean#3117 vs sean#3118 being the "real" Sean. There is a whole industry of people making bots etc to automatically detect and kick attempted impersonators precisely because this is such a problem.
- jsmith45 4y agoTrue, but the new system will only improve it a tiny bit. According to this post In most of the UI it will use your display name (or presumably your server nickname) which will be allowed to match other users. You can still have matching profile pics. To tell people apparat in the new system you need to click their profile and look at the username field, which only helps if the real user has a simpler username than the impersonator. Otherwise, like much like on Twitter, there is no good way for others to know which of @SeanHunter, @SeanHunterOfficial, @RealSeanHunter, is the real Sean Hunter and which ones are impersonators. The may all have identical display names, identical profile pictures, etc. So those anti impersonation systems will still be just as needed.
- hinata08 4y agoThe transition is exactly the time for impersonation I hope they will protect some usernames that are shared by no other users (eg the name of artists) Malicious users could register the Twitter handle of popular artists, to impersonate them or to request a fee to have it back :/ I hope they thought that out.