I was present during the troll invasion; at first they acted just crazy, cracking lame jokes, so we (or at least I) thought "Oh, just one of those 'lol-so-random' newbies", not unlike a potential "shiny and new" who may just be like that. So we stayed put. But when they started to spam, and engage one another into a discussion very quickly descending into too creepy with a side of nope, we waited for the mods to finish them off.

To answer your final questions, even if a newbie posted once, I don't think they should be in any way excluded from joining Discord. Sure, they may not pay overly attention to their spelling, but that's not the sole mark of the troll. Neither was that one the role reason they were deemed trolls.

"What if they haven't posted here [I assume you mean the Board] at all?" Then how we would know there's a newbie? Lurkers eventually decide to reveal themselves, and as far as I know that's when they become newbies, so this argument is kinda invalid (even when they were starting at Discord, they were poked towards the Board very quickly).


That being said, I am in no way convinced that locking up Discord is a good idea, but I can see where the mods stand at with their decision. If it was up to me, however, I would still let the invitation be open to public.

1- Yes to all of that. The Discord should be wide open, for all the reasons you've stated.
2- Judging by the message I got from Discord itself, the trolls were posting links to child pornography. I'm pretty much down with taking measures to deal with that.
3- I am assuming this is a temporary measure to deal with the above. Presumably, once Discord the host comes down on the trolls, no more reason to lock it down.

Okay, that was three things.

I thought this was a horrifying idea when Cat-on-the-Keyboard proposed it last week. I thought I'd addressed it somewhere in the thread, but I see I didn't.

Desdendelle did, though, and Cat-on-the-Keyboard walked back the whole notion as 'pure idiocy'. So yes, I'm quite startled to see it coming right back up again little more than a week later.

hS