Termination of my community involvement

[appellation]

While I was on vacation last week, Discord suspended my account citing concerns that I was under the age of 13 and therefore breaking their Terms of Service. They gave me the steps to appeal that decision, but I will not be doing so; I do not want to submit a copy of my photo/ID to Discord for their convenience.

While I understand that Discord needs to protect themselves against underage users, I'm disappointed that they clearly did not do a holistic evaluation of my account. For those of you who have or will joke about being underage or otherwise breaking Discord ToS, consider yourselves warned that they will not take those jokes in context.

I apologize to the Discord.js community for such an abrupt departure, but I will still make an effort to be involved on GitHub as best I can. I am always available via email if anyone needs to reach out to me privately.

Edit: clarification of what Discord requested.

[therightest]

make a new discord account 🤷‍♂

[appellation]

I don't believe that breaking ToS further will help my case.

[therightest]

we still love you bb

[therightest]

come back

[tipakA]

Can't you use photo you have on github? that gives as much proof as sending any other one, as long as they don't want it in specific conditions like your tag and date

[appellation]

Here is the relevant text of the email they provided to me.

[therightest]

just make a new discord acc bb

[Fyko]

Sad to hear about this on such short notice. Thank you appell for all you've done to support and contribute to this community.

[ShayBox]

😭 appel

[DiscoTiger]

Bans with no evidence monkas. Hopefully discord changes this practice in the future, though I can understand as a business how important it is to protect minors. Discord should just have more resources than this.

[appellation]

To be clear, they did not ban my account. It is disabled pending the submission of evidence which I am not willing to provide.

[tipakA]

So it will "naturally" expire after a month or whatever that period is?
Or it will be hanging there for indefinite time

[imag]

Sad to see you gone appell, you were the best appell a guy could ask for.

[appellation]

I'm unsure what will happen, but at this point it doesn't really matter and they can do whatever they want with it.

[jgoralcz]

wtf