So I know I haven’t been active lately and it saddens me to have this be my first log in in a while, but I have had it.
Our discord server is among the very few IRL communities. This “struggling artist” phenomenon on discord is what causes me to literally hit ignore on every friend request that comes from online communities. When it is our space, I trust that if somebody messages me, it is a person from our actual circle even if I can’t put a face to a nickname.
Yet here is the third time this happens in the past 5 months.
I don’t want to turn into a sociopath, I’d love anyone from our space to feel free to address me for whatever purpose. But I can’t have these annoying discord flies get to me through our platform.
Are we aware of this? Do we do something about it? Maybe the time has come for our server to stop accepting people automatically?
I am attaching screenshots:
(Just clarifying that although I am convinced that these kind of work is already gone in our age of AI for like 99% of RPG/gaming communities purposes, I don’t think they deserve no compassion. Especially since I’ll bet some of them, are us. But I have lost ALL my patience in the past couple of years since it is like became 95% of the friend/message requests I get on discord. It is time to move on to another source of income and in any case, get off platforms that aren’t meant for this.
Heyo…we can’t know about users if no one reports it. So far we had 3-4 users a year that did this kind of stuff and they have been reprimanded.
Just send stuff Neil and mine’s way. Should there be an insane influx yes we might take the link offline or exit the discord community feature and think of something else
Approval based on which criteria? Those accounts aren’t that obviously different from people with genuine interest. And it would come with workload & false positives.
Different discord: I got those kind of proposals from people who had been low key active for months before that hustle started. That’s hard to predict.
Well, several rules read, as well as partake in at least 1 in person event seems like a fair criteria to me, but I can’t deny that even that kind of defeats the purpose of letting a new person join in the discord in preparation for their first in person event… So I admit it isn’t perfect.
I guess in my mind, I’d rather filter than lose control over a community i genuinely care about. That doesn’t mean that 3 dms is “loss of control”. I think I am rather “scarred” by memories of other communities i cherished gone lost for lack of active uphold of its social boundaries/borders.
@H Not quite sure how this lines up with my quoted statement? XD Mayhaps I missed a joke
I’ve seen a few people join the Discord just to have a look around before they sign up for a VALUE event. This would exclude them.
I know it’s annoying but if someone messages you out of the blue saying stuff like ‘hey, mind if I ask you a question?’ it’s an instant ignore. Why would someone ask a question to ask a question? They’re preying on your FOMO to see if you take the bait.
if you’re not sure, ping them in the public general chat with ‘hey, you just private messaged me. How can I help?’ if there’s no reply, report them as they’re likely doing it to others.
