[Aerroon]

When you join a server you can go through the entire history of that channel. A user or a bot pretending to be a user could come in at any point and slurp all of that up.

If you restrict this capability then ultimately you'll just end up with bots pretending to by users.

[madeofpalk]

I think the difference though is that as a user, you cannot do that easily. Whereas a bot can automate this across many channels and servers (especially as this restriction only applies to bots in 100+ servers).

User bots I think is a different, equally valid problem (if not more problematic) that's probably harder to solve. "Rogue bots" look just like normal bots that a server admin would voluntarily install without knowing what it's dong behind the scenes. Bot users are actively malicious and breaking the ToS, and can't reach the same scale as bots (because all server admin cannot just add one to their server).

I think they're both problems, but represent different points on the threat matrix. It's kind of like saying "iPhone shouldn't restrict access to the camera roll for App Store apps when viruses can just bypass and get them anyway".

[Aerroon]

Bot users aren't necessarily malicious at all. That's how automated bots always start out as. And there's no way to tell whether a user is a bot or not if they don't interact with the server.

Besides, if you say something on a public discord chat it's like saying it on Twitter.