Thread:Mira Laime/@comment-5785681-20190518044003/@comment-26339491-20190520183447

Hi Angelle,

Discord is a very popular (voice) chat app among Gamers. It's a service provided by a different company that is independent from Fandom, so Fandom has no power over their features, or over what our users do on there. We can't stop users from creating Discord servers for their wikis or for any other topic, nor can we control who joins them there or what they talk about. We could, at best, stop them from putting a Discord widget on their wikis that invite readers to their server there. In my experience, lots of wikis use Discord servers instead of Fandom's outdated chat, because they offer much better features. Most of these servers are friendly and welcoming and help the community organize and socialize, so we allow Discord widgets.

It's possible that Discord takes away some users who would otherwise have posted on Discussions, but we're not too concerned about that, since the two are very different: Discord offers more-or-less private, synchronous communication, while Discussions is public, asynchronous and open to everyone (so long as they have a Fandom account).

If any abuse were to happen on Discord, users will have to report that to Discord's support, and hopefully, they can provide help. We at Fandom have no way to police what is going on in any Discord servers our users have created, just as we can't controll what our users do on Facebook or on Twitter, etc.

You as an admin can choose not to use Discord on your wiki, and you can make it mandatory for any wiki-related decisions to be debated publicly on the wiki, so everything is transparent and users are held accountable for their words and actions.

I hope this makes things a bit clearer at least!