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Moderation is a requirement with anything involving people so I don’t see that as a discord specific problem. If anything it’s easier than a forum since I don’t have to deal with spam bots myself for the most part.
The channel wipe thing is fair. You’re right about that.
i dont see how it would be easier on discord, discord is literally known only for bot/hacked account issues. I've never seen a spam bot on a forum before.
Plus nobody is likely to target a forum, everybody is targeting discord already. And on top of that the discord banning/automoderation isnt great, i've heard its getting better though.
I follow a niche community and the recent bans for their board is all spam bots even in 2024. I don’t want to put up with that nonsense and discord actively tries to curb that so the choice is easy.
idk you'd have to compare it between a few forums, and a few discord servers of the same size in order to figure it out.
I'd still be surprised to see people actually botting forums. It really just doesn't make any sense.
I mean I have compared it and bots are still relentless on forums.
you already said that, but like, what does it mean
What forum/s are we talking about? What discords are we talking about? What kind of botting are we talking about? Are the forums actively moderated? What's the moderation experience like? Etc...
The big problem here is that discord is the only thing between you and managing your server, either they do it right, or they don't (which is what they usually do) With a forum, you are the only person between the two, but you have full control over it You want to set up a basic entry gate to prevent bot accounts from sneaking through? Trivial. You want to set up message rate limiting? Trivial, you want to set up some clever detection and sequestering mechanism? Trivial.
With discord you're either using bots, which suck, or you have to pay for, or you just pretend that it isn't a problem and let humans deal with it.