The commentary here shows how ignorant people are with things like mandatory reporting and protecting underage children from online predators. Discord is most assuredly a vector for attack, and someone pretending to be some other age or being under age is very much a real issue that is not uncommon on even smaller social networks.
While I'm sure some of this is related to advertising and marketing, the simple fact is, any social network (of which you can lump Discord into) will already be doing things similar to this, even if not for advertising. If not, they are willfully ignorant.
This isn't some "pretend" problem either. Anyone suggesting otherwise is ignorant. It's that simple.
If they really gave a shit, then why didn't they just ask for age on sign up? Or require people to enter that information to keep their account open? Why use some hocus pocus shit to try to guess people's ages?
they do and people lie. regardless, i strongly dislike the idea of an ML model being used to try to guess this. can't wait for one to hallucinate that i'm 10
People lie! Once again, ignorance rears it's head. This isn't some hocus pocus shit. This is stuff that actually works. Not doing this at this point is practically being complicit in child trafficking. If you think this is hyperbole, you are ignorant and need to stand back and listen and learn.
Hocus pocus? Seriously, this is programming 101. Talk to a programmer, it's not complicated.
While I'm sure some of this is related to advertising and marketing, the simple fact is, any social network (of which you can lump Discord into) will already be doing things similar to this, even if not for advertising. If not, they are willfully ignorant.
This isn't some "pretend" problem either. Anyone suggesting otherwise is ignorant. It's that simple.