[meibo]

Judging by my previous interactions with their engineering and "Trust & Safety" team, yes, this is generally how it goes.

Working for Discord and getting that badge must give you quite the ego boost. Conversations with them feel very arbitrary and it's like they consider any word they say to you wasted - of course this doesn't have to apply to all of their staff, but it's certainly a pattern.

[livueta]

Incoming unsupported generalization: this is what happens when you mostly hire fanbois. I think (had a couple acquaintances move from hobby bot/gateway development to Discord employment) they source a lot of their team from people who were evangelists of some sort for the platform pre-employment. You also see it in gaming sometimes - OSRS comes to mind - where community members end up in community management/dev roles. There's something about that elevation from unwashed peon to One Of The Big Boys With A Forum Badge that really messes with the ego.