Has anyone been locked out of DCS discord for not having a mobile number

[Boneski]

For weeks I have been locked out of discord because When I signed up I did not use a mobile number.

For as long as I have been on discord I have never had a problem. Now I am effectively banned with no warning from the community operators 

that we would need to hand over our phone numbers to be on their discord.

Can some one from management look into this for us users that use email vs telephone for verification.

I would like to be able to stay in the loop on the Dcs discord. Thank you!

Edited December 27, 2023 by Boneski

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

the phone number verification is a discord security feature and we require it on our server to join. This helps prevent spam bots and banned alt accounts from re-joining the server. 

Essentially we require that your discord account is a verified one. 

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6181726888215-Verification-Required-FAQ#docs-internal-guid-87f6cde3-7fff-adec-3c4b-a9462532ff3a

 

 

 

[Boneski]

17 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

the phone number verification is a discord security feature and we require it on our server to join. This helps prevent spam bots and banned alt accounts from re-joining the server. 

Essentially we require that your discord account is a verified one. 

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6181726888215-Verification-Required-FAQ#docs-internal-guid-87f6cde3-7fff-adec-3c4b-a9462532ff3a

 

 

 

Yes I understand that but I have been on that channel for years I am sure that something like that would apply to someone trying to join not some one that has been there and posted help and received help there for many years now.

I have been on this DCS forum since 2005 so I am not a bot.

When I Joined that discord there was no phone requirement. Are you also saying to use that there is ZERO option for email verification and that something that seem to be rolled out, out of the blue has cause users to be banned inadvertently? 

 

The other issue is that discord does not allow you to use voice over IP numbers. I am pretty sure that DCS security teams are not wanting or requiring users to go out and rent a number just to re-join their discord are they? 

 

I mean that seem to be the only options we have left is to rent a temporary number to get back in to dcs chat. 

If that is what it is please confirm thanks so much for your time 

Edited December 27, 2023 by Boneski

[NineLine]

Discord has had this check for quite some time, and we have used it for quite some time. I am not sure I understand. Have you been removed from the Discord for some reason and are no trying to rejoin? Or did you leave on your own? 

We use this as this is what Discord offers. We have no plans to change it. Sorry. 

[Boneski]

Hi No I was not removed from Discord. I did not remove myself from the discord forum.. One day I was able to chat. The Next day I was not. I got this odd requirement to render a cell phone number which I simple will not do. I will not allow anyone to harvest my information and sell it just to talk about a game that I have been playing for years with no problem. If I am honest... I feel like I am being targeted and or singled out and pseudo banned for no reason at all and with no warning... I have asked other members of the forum and they have not had this requirement asked of them.. most suspect this is a scam. 

 

I have never had to register a phone number with discord. Again if you guys are doing anti bot stuff then I am clearly not a bot. Also if this was something that you guys were going to turn on I would think you would give us users a heads up.

 

Here is the information  from discord It shows muted

 

 

My Last ability to post was 12/11/2023 I was able to make 10,150 comments on that discord forum

so this is not something that was required while I have been a member there.

As I have written before this was targeted by someone on that forum or something rule change that was 

arbitrarily enforced I suspect.

 

 

[NineLine]

You account seems fine here, you are still a member and your last post was 11/12/2023.

We have had the same verification settings for a few years now. This has not changed recently.

I found an option to "verify user" so I selected that, try again and see if you can chat otherwise you will need to ask Discord what changed because we did not change anything. 

[Boneski]

That worked thank you so very much for the help

[NineLine]

5 hours ago, Boneski said:

That worked thank you so very much for the help

So weird as I see others that are not verified there... so dunno.