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> Edit: what does this even have to do with “don’t base your business around x”? Private companies can cease doing business with you for a variety of reasons. Y

> Edit: what does this even have to do with “don’t base your business around x”? Private companies can cease doing business with you for a variety of reasons. You triggered one of them. I think you've conflated legal and ethical obligations here; you seem to be using that to draw to an unfair conclusion. From my perspective, the post warns against using Discord due to them (reportedly) banning the OP for innocent activity. I believe the warning is fair, as it dissuades other people from using the platform to host important content, which would be at risk of the same treatment. While Discord clearly do not have any legal obligations to serve the user in question, this is already known. Stating it here doesn't contribute to a meaningful discussion -- no chat applications I know of are legally required to serve their users (unless, of course, they have entered into a binding contract with said users, perhaps through B2B services, etc.) Nevertheless, the post does give off Stripe support vibes. I don't believe Discord staff monitor Hacker News, so I don't think this would result in any meaningful result for OP.

slau 3y ago
You’re right, and eloquent to boot. I think what I meant to say was more something along the lines of “does anyone really build a business around Discord?” We’ve been seeing time and time again, especially in recent times (Twitter, Reddit, Apollo) that building something on top of another platform can often end in tears. This being said, I do believe that if you’re building an integration, you might end up in a different spot than random end-users. Although the way Discord handled API changes and the whole bot scope debacle doesn’t inspire confidence. And I say this as someone who maintains a Discord bot. Reflecting on this all, I don’t believe this user got banned out of a random regex match. I think this user’s messages got reported for doxxing, and the moderator who reviewed it concurred.

slau 3y ago

You’re right, and eloquent to boot. I think what I meant to say was more something along the lines of “does anyone really build a business around Discord?” We’ve been seeing time and time again, especially in recent times (Twitter, Reddit, Apollo) that building something on top of another platform can often end in tears. This being said, I do believe that if you’re building an integration, you might end up in a different spot than random end-users. Although the way Discord handled API changes and the whole bot scope debacle doesn’t inspire confidence. And I say this as someone who maintains a Discord bot. Reflecting on this all, I don’t believe this user got banned out of a random regex match. I think this user’s messages got reported for doxxing, and the moderator who reviewed it concurred.