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by chmod775 1269 days ago
> But you won't have 10-messages-long discussion with anybody if there's 1010 users and 10 of them are human.

In such a place it doesn't really matter whether anyone is real, does it? You're probably there to get a few laughs or something, not build relationships with people.

Though there's more serious places with real people. Off the top of my head there's two large discord servers I'm active in: One is to find people to play a certain video game with, the other is a community of developers who use somewhat niche technology and probe each other's brains for knowledge that often can't be found on the internet. In either community a chat bot would be immediately obvious.

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I'm using discord a lot, I'm on around 20 servers. Most of them are in the 10-50 users range and they are for specific purpose (like playing D&D or computer games, remote working in a small team, talking with a group of friends). These won't be affected cause they are invite-only.

Then there are 1000+ users open servers - usually for developing some open source projects or talking about $RANDOM_HOBBY. These would definitely be affected if not for the requirement of giving your phone number to access discord.

You can imagine the problems that 1000 bots posting proceduraly generated bug reports could cause :)