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Discord Servers asking for Phone Numbers and 'Verification Levels' (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10799766

(Edit: Cross-posted OP (link above) was mod removed by the Discord forum 'admin' on 2024-01-19 as being "False claim, false interpreted", so the above link will no longer work.)

Recently read this on a Steam game's reviews section ...

User Comment...

The game's Discord REQUIRES your personal phone number to get access at all. This is a very intrusive, and 100% unnecessary requirement, in order to just be able to interact with others about the game, it's content, player experiences, and many other things. It's also intrusive in regards to being able to contribute any input to help other players in any way at all.

Dev Response...

It's Discord that's asking you for verification of the account. We're not getting your phone number. This is standard practice on bigger servers that allows for a better user experience, filtering bots/ spam accounts, trolls, etc.

Could companies please STOP lying about it being Discord's choice, its not, is the Discord server's choice to ask for it.

Its a "Verification Levels" setting that the server op sets, and they have multiple options that they can choose from, its not an on/off switch. They can dial it back one notch and still have spam/bot protections.

The only difference between "High" and "Highest" verification levels is the addition of asking for a phone number, all other features of "High" is in "Highest", and "Highest" has no other extra features besides asking for the phone number.

Makes it really hard to have an pseudonym account on the Internet, for gaming purposes, and then be asked for your real phone number. I don't need to be tracked 24/7.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Couldn't agree more. And a phone number is kind of important. I don't want to hand that out to 50 random companies for "security", tracking, and them to sell it to advertisers. Or lose it to hackers, which also happens regularly. And I really don't like to pull down my pants for Discord (or whoever) to inspect my private parts.

Btw, the cross-post still leads to an error page for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Btw, the cross-post still leads to an error page for me.

You're right! The page loads for me fine, but there's a marker/tag on there that says "Removed by mod".

In the past I would just get an error when trying to go to the page.

I removed my 'Edit2' addition. Thanks for letting me know.