Am way more bothered than I need to be that players can now only ask to join a game once a week. I have no idea how long it’s been like that, but it’s Absolutely ridiculous. With how much content costs, and how much we spend on this Hasbro churned material, people should be able to post to join once a day.
The discord server used to allow posting once per 3 days. However it was found that this led to a hyper-saturated channel that actually discouraged DMs from looking in it for new players. After speaking with the community about how best to reduce the signal noise and give everyone a better chance to find games, once-per-week was decided upon. This occured several months (maybe even a year) ago, it's not a recent change.
We also had specific functionality programmed into one of our bots to auto-remove posts once they were a week old; this made things easier on DMs look for players (the channel now would only show one of each persons posts), players (who could easily tell when they could post again by seeing if their post had been removed), and us moderators (it being easier to see if people are multi-posting). Ultimately it was a net improvement for everyone.
It should be noted that posting more frequently won't increase your chances of finding a group other than trying to get out in front of the last person who posted, which isn't really a fair way to do things.
I would also like to point out that the discord server is very much an ancillary service that D&D Beyond provides and is in no way tied to your purchases on DDB. We have lots of people that participate on the server that haven't purchased anything; it's meant to be a community for people to discuss D&D.
Also, allowing daily posting would be much worse an experience for everyone (DMs, players and mods) and would likely lead to fewer people finding games.
Thank you for the feedback however, believe me when I say it's very valuable and vital to helping make the discord, as well as all other parts of DDB, better.
I don't even use DDB's official Discord server, but the independent one I use most also handles their player-seeking-game ads in a very similar way, and DM posts for games seeking players (which are on a separate channel) actually have to be approved by a mod before going up. Several other well organized and high population servers I've checked out also handle the process in much the same way. There are channels intended for live, real time chat and then there are ones for listing available players/games for matchmaking purposes.
You post your listing once, along with any relevant info (most servers present a specific template for listing availability, play style preferences, etc pinned to the channel); this is like a personal ad on a dating site and DMs looking to fill a game browse the listings and/or make their own ad on the other channel for that. The autodeletion of week-old postings clears out old entries from people who may well have found games or lost interest, and people looking at the current list know they're getting recent information from active people.
Otherwise you'll just get "I NEED A GAME TO PLAY IN KKTHX!!!" posted literally a hundred times consecutively by one person, then another doing the same to jump in front of them so "NO OVER HERE LOOK AT ME I WANT 2 PLAY NAO!!!" and so forth and that doesn't help anybody with anything.
Trust me, I’ll just be using free PDFs downloads and anyflip like half of the population from now on. Cause you’re 💯% right it shouldn’t entitle anything extra. It’s just annoying to have spent the money and not get a chance to use the stuff.
As explained by Davyd and Flushmaster, posting daily wouldn't increase your chances. Probably the opposite. As such this policy doesn't disenfranchise you at all, and allowing exceptions for the many, many, many users who have bought content not only wouldn't help, it'd have an adverse effect. Discord is hardly the only avenue for looking for groups to join either, never mind that DDB's isn't the only Discord at your disposal for this purpose. Piracy doesn't support the hobby, so that isn't helping either.
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That’s what irritated me the most, I think. If daily posts are gone for everyone, than fine. Didn’t like the idea that…
A desperate DM can post daily to find players.
This isn't true, the once per 7 days rule applies to both our looking-for-players and looking-for-dm channels
It's only advertisements that has a more frequent post limit of 3 days
It admittedly feels disenfranchising for me, since I have purchased content.
I would like to stress again that the discord server exists for everyone who wants to discuss D&D, regardless of if they've purchased content on D&D Beyond or not.
Yeah, sorry, I am just in a bad spot with life at the moment. For some reason the message I received on discord this morning right when I woke was the straw that broke the camels back. First world problems. My apologies.
If anyone who reads this can find it on their heart to forgive me, great. I’d delete the thread if I could/knew how. I’m a bit dumb and shouldn’t have projected my stresses on a game site.
You can always just Google "dungeons and dragons discord" and click through the results, but like I said, the better ones are similar in how they handle player/game ads, at least the bigger ones where more players and games can be found. Also, there are a few out there that I could have been just fine not knowing existed, because it's the internet and mere knowledge of Rule 34 existing is not proper preparation for some of the stuff you can run into by accident out there (all I'll say is I really need to stop thinking "It couldn't really be as bad as it sounds" then clicking on something, YMMV).
Or you could do it like we did back when I was a kid, by posting on a board. And by "board" I mean a big, usually rectangular piece of cheap wood product that resembles an actual board as much as a fast food chicken nugget resembles an actual live chicken, typically found in the back room of the local comic/gaming shop (which meant a comic shop that also sold D&D books and Magic cards). And by "post" I mean write down your name and phone number on a piece of paper and affix it to the "board" by impaling it with a small bit pointy metal. If you were lucky, the dude behind the counter would be able to provide you with said paper and tiny spear because otherwise you had to go to the Wal-Mart halfway across town and buy both in bulk quantities that you would never use (even though you somehow still manage to jab yourself with the same damn loose tacks while looking for the masking tape despite having moved three times in the past twenty-two years). Then after two weeks you agree to join the game of the first stranger that called you and sounded like they probably know how a shower works and if you didn't get one of those you go with the weird sounding guy and just shove cloves of raw garlic up your nose or something while playing because it turns out he's actually a pretty good DM.
I would do this, but my social anxiety is through the roof!! hahah. I am grateful for modern technology. I’ll take a moment to flip my complaint on its head and compliment dndbeyond. The main reason I started purchasing content through here is because of the lgbtqia+ acceptance. It’s one of the few places where I feel comfortable expressing my preferred pronouns, and it isn’t a one month shtick that they pull to rake in revenue. It’s genuine.
If anyone who reads this can find it on their heart to forgive me, great. I’d delete the thread if I could/knew how. I’m a bit dumb and shouldn’t have projected my stresses on a game site.
Honestly, no need for that. I'm not going to hold it against you, especially after your last posts, and maybe someone else will find the info about the policies useful. We all have bad days every now and then. I hope you find a great table, in person or otherwise, to join soon.
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Yeah, sorry, I am just in a bad spot with life at the moment. For some reason the message I received on discord this morning right when I woke was the straw that broke the camels back. First world problems. My apologies.
S'all good, people have bad days. Hope you have better ones ahead!
I had a friend joined the discord while staying at my place. I'm banned myself so I don't know if yall saw the IP and instant banned them, but they're now banned and hadn't even put a message in chat before they were gone. No mods contacted them, no reason was given. Can something be done to fix this because it feels as if you are blocking new members from joining and the merger makes things even harder.
I had a friend joined the discord while staying at my place. I'm banned myself so I don't know if yall saw the IP and instant banned them, but they're now banned and hadn't even put a message in chat before they were gone. No mods contacted them, no reason was given. Can something be done to fix this because it feels as if you are blocking new members from joining and the merger makes things even harder.
I cannot speak to your situation but I can say when I was a moderator I tried to quote rules on why I was interposing myself in the conversation or event. So if I was the person banning people I would give a reason (that is if I was allowed to by the higher ups).
I had a friend joined the discord while staying at my place. I'm banned myself so I don't know if yall saw the IP and instant banned them, but they're now banned and hadn't even put a message in chat before they were gone. No mods contacted them, no reason was given. Can something be done to fix this because it feels as if you are blocking new members from joining and the merger makes things even harder.
With three exceptions (two of which were discord terms of service violations) all the bans on the server for the past month have been for posting spam and scam links. So unless your friend decided to post malicious links or spam the server, they haven't been banned.
If your friend was banned for posting spam or scam links, they would've been soft banned, which means they'll be able to rejoin the server, albeit muted, and file an appeal to be allowed to resume posting.
We don't even have the ability to IP ban, but that is something discord itself can do, do you might want to look into that.
Edit: after having looked into this matter, as well checking discord support, and it appears that discord maybe apply an IP level ban when you're banned from a server. This can cause you to be affected by a ban for a server you've never accessed if someone else on the same IP address is banned.
This can affect you if you're in the same household, university network, or sometimes VPN (which can pool users on the same IP range)
They've tried several times to rejoin and they had no post history in there at all. I can have them try again but it says this user has been banned. She posted no links, no messages, nothing.
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Am way more bothered than I need to be that players can now only ask to join a game once a week. I have no idea how long it’s been like that, but it’s Absolutely ridiculous.
With how much content costs, and how much we spend on this Hasbro churned material, people should be able to post to join once a day.
The discord server used to allow posting once per 3 days. However it was found that this led to a hyper-saturated channel that actually discouraged DMs from looking in it for new players. After speaking with the community about how best to reduce the signal noise and give everyone a better chance to find games, once-per-week was decided upon. This occured several months (maybe even a year) ago, it's not a recent change.
We also had specific functionality programmed into one of our bots to auto-remove posts once they were a week old; this made things easier on DMs look for players (the channel now would only show one of each persons posts), players (who could easily tell when they could post again by seeing if their post had been removed), and us moderators (it being easier to see if people are multi-posting). Ultimately it was a net improvement for everyone.
It should be noted that posting more frequently won't increase your chances of finding a group other than trying to get out in front of the last person who posted, which isn't really a fair way to do things.
I would also like to point out that the discord server is very much an ancillary service that D&D Beyond provides and is in no way tied to your purchases on DDB. We have lots of people that participate on the server that haven't purchased anything; it's meant to be a community for people to discuss D&D.
Also, allowing daily posting would be much worse an experience for everyone (DMs, players and mods) and would likely lead to fewer people finding games.
Thank you for the feedback however, believe me when I say it's very valuable and vital to helping make the discord, as well as all other parts of DDB, better.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
That’s what irritated me the most, I think. If daily posts are gone for everyone, than fine. Didn’t like the idea that…
A desperate DM can post daily to find players.
A desperate player can only ask once a week, or pony up and join a game they’d rather not.
Again, I know I’m overreacting and I apologize.
It admittedly feels disenfranchising for me, since I have purchased content.
Which you can use. Why would buying content entitle you to extra privileges beyond getting to use that content?
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
I don't even use DDB's official Discord server, but the independent one I use most also handles their player-seeking-game ads in a very similar way, and DM posts for games seeking players (which are on a separate channel) actually have to be approved by a mod before going up. Several other well organized and high population servers I've checked out also handle the process in much the same way. There are channels intended for live, real time chat and then there are ones for listing available players/games for matchmaking purposes.
You post your listing once, along with any relevant info (most servers present a specific template for listing availability, play style preferences, etc pinned to the channel); this is like a personal ad on a dating site and DMs looking to fill a game browse the listings and/or make their own ad on the other channel for that. The autodeletion of week-old postings clears out old entries from people who may well have found games or lost interest, and people looking at the current list know they're getting recent information from active people.
Otherwise you'll just get "I NEED A GAME TO PLAY IN KKTHX!!!" posted literally a hundred times consecutively by one person, then another doing the same to jump in front of them so "NO OVER HERE LOOK AT ME I WANT 2 PLAY NAO!!!" and so forth and that doesn't help anybody with anything.
Neat’o
As explained by Davyd and Flushmaster, posting daily wouldn't increase your chances. Probably the opposite. As such this policy doesn't disenfranchise you at all, and allowing exceptions for the many, many, many users who have bought content not only wouldn't help, it'd have an adverse effect. Discord is hardly the only avenue for looking for groups to join either, never mind that DDB's isn't the only Discord at your disposal for this purpose. Piracy doesn't support the hobby, so that isn't helping either.
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
This isn't true, the once per 7 days rule applies to both our looking-for-players and looking-for-dm channels
It's only advertisements that has a more frequent post limit of 3 days
I would like to stress again that the discord server exists for everyone who wants to discuss D&D, regardless of if they've purchased content on D&D Beyond or not.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Yeah, sorry, I am just in a bad spot with life at the moment. For some reason the message I received on discord this morning right when I woke was the straw that broke the camels back. First world problems. My apologies.
If anyone who reads this can find it on their heart to forgive me, great. I’d delete the thread if I could/knew how. I’m a bit dumb and shouldn’t have projected my stresses on a game site.
You can always just Google "dungeons and dragons discord" and click through the results, but like I said, the better ones are similar in how they handle player/game ads, at least the bigger ones where more players and games can be found. Also, there are a few out there that I could have been just fine not knowing existed, because it's the internet and mere knowledge of Rule 34 existing is not proper preparation for some of the stuff you can run into by accident out there (all I'll say is I really need to stop thinking "It couldn't really be as bad as it sounds" then clicking on something, YMMV).
Or you could do it like we did back when I was a kid, by posting on a board. And by "board" I mean a big, usually rectangular piece of cheap wood product that resembles an actual board as much as a fast food chicken nugget resembles an actual live chicken, typically found in the back room of the local comic/gaming shop (which meant a comic shop that also sold D&D books and Magic cards). And by "post" I mean write down your name and phone number on a piece of paper and affix it to the "board" by impaling it with a small bit pointy metal. If you were lucky, the dude behind the counter would be able to provide you with said paper and tiny spear because otherwise you had to go to the Wal-Mart halfway across town and buy both in bulk quantities that you would never use (even though you somehow still manage to jab yourself with the same damn loose tacks while looking for the masking tape despite having moved three times in the past twenty-two years). Then after two weeks you agree to join the game of the first stranger that called you and sounded like they probably know how a shower works and if you didn't get one of those you go with the weird sounding guy and just shove cloves of raw garlic up your nose or something while playing because it turns out he's actually a pretty good DM.
I would do this, but my social anxiety is through the roof!! hahah. I am grateful for modern technology. I’ll take a moment to flip my complaint on its head and compliment dndbeyond. The main reason I started purchasing content through here is because of the lgbtqia+ acceptance. It’s one of the few places where I feel comfortable expressing my preferred pronouns, and it isn’t a one month shtick that they pull to rake in revenue. It’s genuine.
Honestly, no need for that. I'm not going to hold it against you, especially after your last posts, and maybe someone else will find the info about the policies useful. We all have bad days every now and then. I hope you find a great table, in person or otherwise, to join soon.
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
S'all good, people have bad days. Hope you have better ones ahead!
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
I had a friend joined the discord while staying at my place. I'm banned myself so I don't know if yall saw the IP and instant banned them, but they're now banned and hadn't even put a message in chat before they were gone. No mods contacted them, no reason was given. Can something be done to fix this because it feels as if you are blocking new members from joining and the merger makes things even harder.
I cannot speak to your situation but I can say when I was a moderator I tried to quote rules on why I was interposing myself in the conversation or event. So if I was the person banning people I would give a reason (that is if I was allowed to by the higher ups).
I hope you find some answers.
With three exceptions (two of which were discord terms of service violations) all the bans on the server for the past month have been for posting spam and scam links. So unless your friend decided to post malicious links or spam the server, they haven't been banned.
If your friend was banned for posting spam or scam links, they would've been soft banned, which means they'll be able to rejoin the server, albeit muted, and file an appeal to be allowed to resume posting.
We don't even have the ability to IP ban, but that is something discord itself can do, do you might want to look into that.Edit: after having looked into this matter, as well checking discord support, and it appears that discord maybe apply an IP level ban when you're banned from a server. This can cause you to be affected by a ban for a server you've never accessed if someone else on the same IP address is banned.
This can affect you if you're in the same household, university network, or sometimes VPN (which can pool users on the same IP range)
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Great info and I hope it solves the OP's issue.
They've tried several times to rejoin and they had no post history in there at all. I can have them try again but it says this user has been banned. She posted no links, no messages, nothing.