More than 50 million accounts were banned from Discord in the first half of 2022!

It’s nothing: Discord banhammer almost non-stop to offend users and servers.

A discord on its website Since 2019 we can read reports on transparency and the decentralized social platform security team has not been idle in the first six months of 2022. Reports are published every quarter and from January to June 2022 55 million 573,000 411 accounts have been deactivated and, although the deletion of the servers was not in the millions, 68379 were also deleted here. According to Discord, most of the disabled accounts were spam or related violations.

If we look at offenders beyond spam, the number of banned accounts drops dramatically to 1,821,721. At the same time, however, they cannot disclose server data, because according to Discord’s rules, they cannot send spam, but are instead deleted in case of unsolicited content, platform manipulation and illegal activity. Of the non-spam server and ban account categories, child protection is the broadest, followed by the exploitative and unwanted content category. Discord moderators do not monitor chat logs and server broadcasts continuously.

In recent years, the monitoring of extreme and illegal activities on Discord has increased tremendously, and among them, child abuse and hate speech have received the most attention. This year, the New York State Attorney General launched an investigation into hate platforms (such as Discord, for example) after a mass slaughter. Most of the appeals after the bans are rejected: 2 in the first quarter and only 0.6% (!) Were reinstated in the second. So out of 235945 appeals, only 3098 were able to use Discord again on their affected accounts …

Discord responded to 24% of reports in the first quarter, compared to 22% in the second quarter. That didn’t include the multitude of one-click reports (well, there’s more: right-clicking on the message, reporting the message, then selecting the topic we think is relevant …). The tricky part is that most spammers don’t even get reported by users. Of the 27 million 733 thousand 948 branches banned in the second quarter, only 7 million 785 thousand 111 were reported, or approx. only a quarter! Discord eliminates them even before intercourse …

However, some servers were closed …

Source: PC Gamer