Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images

32 pointsposted 21 hours ago
by logickkk1

5 Comments

novia

18 hours ago

> “When our staff reviewed and cleared those accounts, the same bug prevented the ban from being lifted automatically, so it just stayed in place,” Discord says.

It seems like a similar issue is affecting Twitter currently. People are being suspended for inauthentic behavior, they appeal, they get an email saying the appeal was accepted, and then, nothing, the account doesn't come back. Is there perhaps a third party moderation platform behind both of these services?

https://www.reddit.com/r/twitterhelp/comments/1sr7t1m/x_rest...

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/restoration-emails-for-suspende...

Ravi4649

21 hours ago

Imagine you suddenly getting banned after posting a picture of a chessboard

nitwit005

15 hours ago

It's an old problem: https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn...

I've been fairly convinced a lot of social media bans, where people are genuinely confused about the bans, are just automatic moderation problems.

Hugsbox

3 hours ago

It's for detecting porn? I genuinely don't get it. I regularly post actual nudes on discord and never so much as a warning, crazy that a chessboard or grids are doing it. I wonder what makes an algorithm view a grid pattern as pornographic.