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TBH I consider that a feature, to guard against spam and trolls.

My ideal project forum is one where anyone on the internet can read the forum, but contributing to the forum requires some bare minimum effort of creating and verifying a new account. Both of those are the opposite of what Discord does.

[KomoD]

> TBH I consider that a feature, to guard against spam and trolls.

It doesn't stop spam and trolls though, that will always exist, it stops real users who can't be bothered with yet another account.

[wavemode]

I frankly don't mourn the loss of users "who can't be bothered with yet another account". Putting thought and effort into forum interactions takes longer than creating an account, so someone incapable of the latter is usually incapable of the former.

[jncfhnb]

Idk if I have ever seen a spam account on a tech support forum. Like not a single spam post.

Edit: on a discord*

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Have you ever managed one? I have, and it's a regular occurrence. Though not necessarily something that ends up being visible to every user (unless you happen to be around precisely when it happens, before we delete the content).

[jncfhnb]

Seems hard to square spam being more of a problem in discord when visible spam is observably much less than in other forums