That actually is the default OOB behavior for new accounts in Discord. Ok, I was wrong on this point.
Rather than assuming censorship, perhaps the more constructive request might be “My account appears to have been reset to guest limits. Please restore my owner badge.”
But hey – we apparently have different approaches to asking for help. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Good point – the fact that his username is grayed out indicates his account is now set up as a guest account attached to someone’s active account. Missed that the first time around.
The default system behaviour is that users automatically get promoted through trust levels.
There are not many options left except that they restricted “new user”, “guest account”, “whatever you want to call it” levels at some point in the last several months.
Definitely, someone on this forum needs to be critical of this company. We cannot all say everything is awesome at all times. They would have no motivation to do anything at that point, they are a for-profit company after all.
We must always be vigilant-- it is only by assuming the worst and hitting someone with a stick do we ever motivate them to change and improve. “Spare the rod, spoil the child” – or company in this case… (said with a large helping of sarcasm, as both a parent and a pet owner I know far better than to follow this draconian methodology)…
Corporations are made of people. People respond in kind to how they are approached. Come at me in a threatening posture, I will be in threat response mode. Take a non-threatening, open posture, I will respond in a friendly manner. It’s how we are made.
We haven’t made any changes, but it looks like some change on Discourse side triggered a host of spam flags - I just spent the better part of an hour sorting through them. I disabled that particular warning, but do let me know if other new limits somehow materialize from the aether.
BTW I am the “community manager” in question. We haven’t made any changes to these settings in >6 months, so any change in Discourse behavior is something on their side. If you find other changes, please open a new thread to let us know.