Looks like there are a lot of reports going around of Discord falsely banning people from triggering their AI moderation of child safety violations. r/bannedfromdiscord is full of them. I was skeptical at first because I found out about this from a copy-pasted warning message, which I don't trust as a rule, but the reddit users posting about it all have legit-looking accounts so it looks like a real thing.
A common trigger seems to be grids and checkerboard images: screenshots of game development textures, excel sheets, and minecraft inventory screens were among the things triggering instant bans, so that's something to avoid, and look out for people who post something innocuous like this and then immediately disappear.
I realized I do know a lot of people on Discord for whom I have no other contact info so I took this opportunity to make a list of all the servers I'm in and all the people I have frequent DM contact with and note how I could get back in contact with them, and ask them for an alternative if I currently have none.


















