Is Discord Really The Same As When It Started?
I’m sure we have all heard of the popular conversation app Discord by the clever developers making their funny jokes like their mascot, Wumpus, a friendly robot named Clyde, and more. Discord is most recognized for its larger community servers like Sound’s World based off of YouTuber SoundDrout or Belugang based off Discord skit YouTuber Beluga. But do we recognize those small servers?
Sure, let’s call those small servers, our servers, the 20–30 we make per year trying to gain members through top.gg or Disboard, or dsc.gg, maybe even advertising in channels. Some people take it extreme by raiding servers and the only choice left is to join their Discord server.
We’ve got 93 cool ranks, but only 1 member and a few bots to handle it. I remember I used to make a living saying I had members by throwing in a bunch of useless bots then throwing them into a read-only channel so they could do nothing. Then instead of displaying Three Members it would display 23 Members making people want to join.
About 42% and rising is the percentage of people under 13 on Discord. About 16% is the number of adults on Discord, who don’t own a YouTube channel. Another 31% is dedicated to actual 10k+ YouTubers. The rest is dedicated to in-between members and staff for Discord.
This brings us to our main question:
Is Discord What It Was In 2015?
Well, when Discord started in 2015, it was made as a better alternative to TeamSpeak or Skype, and with their program getting better, users got drawn into it and YouTubers created communities for their members. Discord was created as a purpose to hang out with friends. Then it was for communities. Then it was for all.
There are more than 6.7 million active servers on Discord, and among them is the Minecraft Discord Server, in which has reached the maximum amount of people allowed. About 5–10% of these servers are used illegally, being used to let the user know where drugs are or have an encrypted voice chat. And with 6.7 million servers and growing to look after, there is no way Discord can tolerate all of them. They could possibly pull off about 3% with reports, if members were helpful, and 0.3% if they did it on their own with a flagging system.
As Discord continues to grow, we can come to the conclusion that
Discord is not the same as it used to be
and it’s not going to get any better. I mean, they added a new feature called “Report Raids” where admins and moderators of a server can report a raid to Discord Staff. This button has a 74% chance of abuse happening to it, and that can delay actual reports of raids. All the advice I can give you is to stay careful out there.
With Discord Nitro being included, this allowed scammers to get their money. Discord Nitro is a paid subscription in which you must pay $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year. There are two bots which still haven’t been banned at publication which are: Axiom and Pégase. Discord moderates non verified bots more than verified bots, and with these duping these fake bots into servers then abusing the verified bot tag, they can get away with anything.
These bots send you annoying Direct Messages about how you have won Discord Nitro, and you get happy so you just click it. You allow “MEE6” to get access to your account. (If you don’t know what MEE6 is, it’s a multi-functional trusted bot for server moderation) Now your account is randomly joining servers, and leaving your old ones. You have to give up your account, allowing them to gain another verified bot.
With the rise of premium services, it’s getting worse. But to read more about Premium Services read our new article about how bad premium services are getting soon.
This brings me to my point that I believe Discord is not the same as how it started. We should have a change about this, that doesn’t include turning everything into revenue.
