I have no idea… Once, all I said was my Discord username and got an alert. Well, haters gonna hate.

girlsruless wrote:

I have no idea… Once, all I said was my Discord username and got an alert. Well, haters gonna hate.

it's because discord has unmonitored chat.

It's because Discord is unmoderated chat, plus you can see someone else's face (right?)

YubNubEwok wrote:

It's because Discord is unmoderated chat, plus you can see someone else's face (right?)

No, as far as I know you can't see anyone's face

doqq wrote:

YubNubEwok wrote:

It's because Discord is unmoderated chat, plus you can see someone else's face (right?)

No, as far as I know you can't see anyone's face

Oh, but you told me it was like Skype…

doqq wrote:

I emailed the ST and asked if i was allowed to share discord info. This was their response:

“Linking to anything that leads to discord is not okay. Sharing this will cause your account to become blocked so it is important you don't.”

Why do they seem so strongly opposed to discord? It's not a bad website or anything.

As discord has no native moderation, it's easy for a young child to get somewhere they shouldn't be(an NSFW server or worst, a grooming server). In addition, you need to be at least 13 to use discord and most Scratchers are under that age. Even if your server has moderation, a Scratcher could go searching for more. And that's just bad. Also, if any of you here are using discord and you're not 13 or over, FYI you're breaking the law.

TL;DR: Too easy to fall into the wrong hands.

doqq wrote:

YubNubEwok wrote:

It's because Discord is unmoderated chat, plus you can see someone else's face (right?)

No, as far as I know you can't see anyone's face

Video calling has been introduced in the latest versions.

myeducate wrote:

doqq wrote:

I emailed the ST and asked if i was allowed to share discord info. This was their response:

“Linking to anything that leads to discord is not okay. Sharing this will cause your account to become blocked so it is important you don't.”

Why do they seem so strongly opposed to discord? It's not a bad website or anything.

Also, if any of you here are using discord and you're not 13 or over, FYI you're breaking the law.

Woah, I thought that that was for your safety, not an actual rule! Does it apply for other games/things? (By the way, I don't use discord)

YubNubEwok wrote:

myeducate wrote:

doqq wrote:

I emailed the ST and asked if i was allowed to share discord info. This was their response:

“Linking to anything that leads to discord is not okay. Sharing this will cause your account to become blocked so it is important you don't.”

Why do they seem so strongly opposed to discord? It's not a bad website or anything.

Also, if any of you here are using discord and you're not 13 or over, FYI you're breaking the law.

Woah, I thought that that was for your safety, not an actual rule! Does it apply for other games/things? (By the way, I don't use discord)

Yes. Because discord collects information on its users, it's strictly illegal for discord or any other site to collect personal information about minors (under 13's). Even if you're over 13, you still need parental permission until your 16-18 I think. It applies to pretty much every over social media site too like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter.. just to name a few. Because of this, any underage accounts are immediately terminated by the company once alerted.

myeducate wrote:

YubNubEwok wrote:

myeducate wrote:

doqq wrote:

I emailed the ST and asked if i was allowed to share discord info. This was their response:

“Linking to anything that leads to discord is not okay. Sharing this will cause your account to become blocked so it is important you don't.”

Why do they seem so strongly opposed to discord? It's not a bad website or anything.

Also, if any of you here are using discord and you're not 13 or over, FYI you're breaking the law.

Woah, I thought that that was for your safety, not an actual rule! Does it apply for other games/things? (By the way, I don't use discord)

Yes. Because discord collects information on its users, it's strictly illegal for discord or any other site to collect personal information about minors (under 13's). Even if you're over 13, you still need parental permission until your 16-18 I think. It applies to pretty much every over social media site too like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter.. just to name a few. Because of this, any underage accounts are immediately terminated by the company once alerted.

I feel like that law is called COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) or something like that.

I'm really sure that hearing other user's voices aren't really a way to find the identity because many people have regular voices and even more than one person can have the same voice.

Charles12310 wrote:

even more than one person can have the same voice.

That really makes me mad, as a Christian, God made us so that we all can't be the same. Yes, some voices can sound a lot like others, but no voice can be the exact same. (Unless you're using some special thing to change your voice.)

YubNubEwok wrote:

Charles12310 wrote:

even more than one person can have the same voice.

That really makes me mad, as a Christian, God made us so that we all can't be the same. Yes, some voices can sound a lot like others, but no voice can be the exact same. (Unless you're using some special thing to change your voice.)

What I mean is that one voice might be mistaken for another voice. You're right, we can't all be the same, but we can't all be different, either, per experts.

I-Iz-A-Litten wrote:

GamesGuyTV wrote:

Because they are unmoderated for example I invited you to my discord you get into the discord but I was swearing in it and its unmoderated

yeah, I agree with him/her

I'm a he

Discord has been banned from scratch since the first discord link on scratch was reported

YubNubEwok wrote:

Charles12310 wrote:

even more than one person can have the same voice.

That really makes me mad, as a Christian, God made us so that we all can't be the same. Yes, some voices can sound a lot like others, but no voice can be the exact same. (Unless you're using some special thing to change your voice.)

Religion doesn't matter. You can't use a deity to reason in a debate, unless it's religious itself.

Locomule wrote:

I got a warning just for asking someone if they were on Discord. They responded no, and I said, “Ok, now worries.” and the was the end of the conversation but I still got a warning later that ignored the end of the conversation and told me it looked like I was trying to talk them into meeting me there.
The community guidelines specifically state “no linking”, it doesn't say not to mention sites. Yet when you get a warning, that is the information you will be referred to. Confusing, to say the least. If we can only mention certain sites then give us a list of those sites, please.
In the meantime , I suggest just not mentioning other sites here at Scratch. Since my warning, I even quit recommending the Scratch Wiki and removed it from my forum signature because it mentions sites liked Discord. Obviously a terrible solution but I don't want to get other Scratchers in trouble.

What you haven't got a warning for this

Source:
https://scratch.mit.edu/community_guidelines/


Keep personal info private
For safety reasons, don't give out any information that could be used for private communication - such as real last names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, links to social media sites or websites with unmoderated chat.

Discord is especially frowned on because it is specifically made to be a customizable, private chatroom, and the Scratch team is historically against sharing these websites because parents of young scratchers rely on Scratch to keep the content their child sees moderated. Discord servers very often have nsfw specific threads, voice threads, etc and as such its an obvious thing to moderate before it gets out of their jurisdiction.

Don't ever link discord links not even on the forums