just saw some people posting about how actually this isn't an ad and therefore people shouldn't be irritated at discord about it. turns out all of these people worked for discord in some capacity. which is fine of course, i use discord a lot and thank them for their service. it just does give some real "it's the users who are wrong" energy
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in reply to @Campster's post:
man and they managed to get the confidently using AI voice actors one too, that sure looks good for the voice app people are mad about AI on
There is a setting to turn that off btw, though I don’t know where because my client hasn’t updated yet
Turning off the prompt only goes so far imo when the entire concept is banking on your friends being the ad 😬
in reply to @stu's post:
im not linking it because they're opened their post expressing that they didn't want to hear about it, which is fine! i just don't think arguing that all the little annoyances that to me read as ads aren't technically ads is going to actually stop anyone from being annoyed
Oh, Discord Testers was a server for non-staff to submit bug reports (and respond to questions from staff about those reports). I dunno if that person was otherwise employed as something else.
Your post implied that paid employees were posting stuff like that which I don't think is the case.
yeah that's fair, though i would consider a volunteer effort to organize a company's bug tracking to be working for the company. this is tangential maybe but at least in the US companies theoretically can't accept volunteer labor and it's a rule that a lot of "fun companies" (like my old industry of tabletop gaming) flout