This only happens because you don't have a Discord account or you are not logged in - or both.
Discord is merely the Internet, made convenient. FreeBSD Forums are just as easy to scrape - what do you expect? All we can do is police ourselves on what we post and say in either place. Convenience and security are two sides of the same coin.
You regularly post specific links to specific posts made on discord. It's those links I (and others) are talking about. Generic (promotional) links to discord or discord servers are fine.
That's not a problem, at all. Not sure why you're bringing this up as an argument.
I have a discord account and I am a member. Those links just jump to somewhere in the history of a particular channel with NO indication which post was referenced. So you have to go through a wall of unrelated chit-chat and guess which specific post was being referenced. That makes them rather useless in my opinion. If the links provided a direct link to a specific post, and only that post, I would have less of a problem with it. But they're not, and they require an account and membership to be able to even view them.
The link already does that, no need for even more hoops to jump through. Doesn't change anything though, "the message should be central", thus you still need to hunt for the right one. I have a screen full of text, and the referenced post is somewhere in the middle of that? At least Reddit (or Forum) links actually link me directly to the referenced post, I don't have to scan the result to find the exact post being referenced. Discord links to specific posts are awful, not your fault. It's Discord itself that needs to improve this.
ALL new users go through the same 10 posts and 10 days of moderation. That's been the case since the forums were put online. No one is, or has been, exempt from this.
Someone did ban me. Police do get questioned by the public if they overstep boundaries of safety enforcement. Whoever banned me did overstep in reaction to my openly questioning the maturity and behavior of people in the 'helper' role with ban powers, IMHO.
I disagree. You were putting me in bad light actively on the chat before you got banned. YOU overstepped by not only doing a false report on me abusing power- when I did not even ban a single person except bots and people under 13 before, but also pushing an agenda that I was a malicious helper, when I never did I even delete a single message of yours. The fact I was saying things you dont want to listen to, did not make me a bad person.
Take it up with whomever banned you, or one of the other moderators. Police also get harassed by people taking videos out of context, or deliberately entice law enforcement for clout.
My report was substantiated, with screenshots. And I feel that you were not the only one abusing the 'helper' power and the very intent of the FreeBSD Discord server.
we're going in "he said", "I said". I frankly got no idea why you feel the need to bring this here. you got my discord handle, just friend me or PM me on here and we can talk all you want. I am not going to reply here anymore.
The background changes color for a split-second. The effect is subtle and indeed often difficult to notice.
Ok, that confused me, then I realised you've changed your username.
and veiled personal attacks, snark and sarcasm? Is this how it is on discord?
Even worse than here, trust me. I got banned for openly questioning maturity of a 'helper' there. The 'helper' was unable to acknowledge their own lack of knowledge of Open Source, took getting called out on it as personal attacks (rather than a learning opportunity), and tried to bring irrelevant politics into the server. Another 'helper' stepped in and banned me for the questioning. In this very thread, it was suggested to me that I should take that up with the server's mods (above the 'helper' role, BTW). I personally think that's sound advice, even if it will take awhile to actually pull off.
I get a lot of that - links from people who incorrectly assume that I have an account somewhere (Well, I do have a Discord account, even though I'm not logged in there all the time). At this point, I have learned to live with the reality of people making incorrect assumptions. I can't be grumpy about the fact that others don't know much about me, and make assumptions to fill the gaps. Gently correcting somebody else's incorrect assumption about you will get you a lot further than complaining how inconvenient it is that somebody did not realize you don't have a Discord account.
I had to wake up from my ghost reader momentum to just quote about this.
As long you don't say that something can't be ported to FreeBSD because it have certain blocks, right?
