{"id":529770,"date":"2026-07-07T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/529770\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:51:13","slug":"discord-accidentally-banned-over-8000-people-for-posting-grids-and-other-benign-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/529770\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other \u2018benign\u2019 images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord cofounder and chief technology officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/svishnevskiy\/status\/2074285318073913375?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">writes that the bug<\/a> impacted around 200 users who posted \u201cgrid-like\u201d pictures, in addition to about 8,000 people who posted \u201cother benign images\u201d since May 2026. \u201cEveryone affected has now been unbanned,\u201d Vishnevskiy says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/discord_support\/status\/2074282860123767135?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">a thread on X<\/a>, Discord writes that its safety system is designed to flag content by \u201cmatching it against known harmful material.\u201d This system can produce \u201cfalse positives,\u201d Discord explains, which is when an employee would step in to review the flagged content. But instead of just temporarily preventing the account from uploading content during the review, a glitch led its system to ban users entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cWhen our staff reviewed and cleared those accounts, the same bug prevented the ban from being lifted automatically, so it just stayed in place,\u201d Discord says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord cofounder and chief technology officer, writes that the bug impacted around 200 users who posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8846,5968,85,46,43,2460,920,125],"class_list":["post-529770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-gaming","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}