Clearing Data on a Discord Server that I Was Banned from

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Newcomer here! I just wanted to know if there is a way to delete data from a Discord server that I was banned from

Thanks

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Option one:
Ask the creator/owner if he deletes your messages and every log.
(Not guaranteed that he actually does this and that discord doesn’t save your messages somewhere else and that no one scraped your messages)

Option two:
Sent discord a data deletion request of the whole account and request explicitly that you want all messages gone with all message IDs. Tutorials exist on YouTube how you get all information required.
(Discord will not easily do this, and you will have to send multiple requests, threaten discord with legal actions, fighting with Discord for months or even years.)

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Thanks! I’d probably go with the first one, but I’m worried about what the owner would think of me now that I’m banned from their server

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I guess it doesn’t matter that much tbh, get over it haha. :hugs:

Btw, as said above you can ask Discord to delete your data and fight with the platform owner etc. But don’t be naive, your messages will only be hidden, don’t expect them to actually delete the data for real (nobody will ever have a proof of that part).
At least it won’t be visible to the commoners of the Discord server.

Overall, assume that every platform keeps a permanent record of you forever.

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I guess the only way to remove them is if I have to do it myself, which isn’t possible because I’m banned there

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Even if you weren’t banned, the delete button doesn’t mean it’s deleted from the database.
It might just be hidden. We won’t ever know if they do actually delete it[1]. :slight_smile:

  1. and Big Data is a big source of money, hence they probably don’t ↩︎

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I guess my choice doesn’t matter at all. Oof

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Btw, as said above you can ask Discord to delete your data and fight with the platform owner etc. But don’t be naive, your messages will only be hidden, don’t expect them to actually delete the data for real (nobody will ever have a proof of that part).

I see where you are coming from, but I would disagree with you here.
Discord isn’t interested on your data, discord is interested making money with you and your data (you are the product).

The fines for saying you deleted data according to the data deletion request according to the GDPR, but you didn’t delete the data, are pretty high.
If you look now from the perspective of a business major’s perspective it is not profitable to lie.
Another matter would be to make it as hard as possible and as long as possible to delete data.

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That’s what I meant yes, written more accurately. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Yes and no. Not everybody goes all the way to double-check in-depth.
I don’t see any EU 3rd party company hired by the government doing some deep OPS into Discord’s servers trying to find out where are the hidden messages.
Nobody has the time for that nor the money.

Moreover, if it’s never found out, the company won’t even need to pay the fee.
Worst part? Even if they are found out, it’s not like the fees will be 50% of their turn over.

I cannot find out the xkcd but it goes like this

  1. we’re doing this shady thing with our end users’ data, is it legal?
  2. no, but nobody will find out
  3. even if they do, it’s just part of the budget for this feature anyway :+1:t2:

It’s not about if, but of a when.
Weekly news leak more and more bad practices from non-caring companies, assume they don’t care. If they’re caught, they’ll just pay the few million $ penalty while still making billion $ on yearly basis.
Hell, even legal fees/court stuff is >1% of those and are still part of every Big Tech company cashflow. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

TLDR: let’s not be naive and think that a regulation is a silver bullet.
There are entire full time paid squads to get around those “legal slowdowns”. :slight_smile:

Almost forgot this one.
Sometimes technical debt is a good enough reason.
Moreover, you need workforce to redo things the right way.
Meanwhile, you could just go illegal and still make far more money than the penalty fee (if you’re caught the hand in the bag).

I come fresh from this book, got an entire grid of those shady practices just lined up waiting to defeat your previous message. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Not like I was surprised, but reading the details as of how they do that was quite enlightening for sure.

Same here, no normie has the time, money and resources to be bothered by that nonsense with all the services they’re using.

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i’ll go with what @Onscreen5341 says, Discord has to delete the data not hide, Otherwise the next data package request will prove it and can be sent as evidence to the DPO to take action on discord. It really is not worth it when all they have to do is comply.

Part of the confusion of yours might be when you delete the account

finally please search the forum

one thing ill disagree with onscreen is that you have to fight it for years or months
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just execute it correctly, be persistent, if they don’t comply, if you can contact your local DPO as a last resort, do it. Your messages should be deleted within around a week or 2

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Was in the same boat as you. I asked Discord to ‘delete’ messages I’d want deleted. They just complied without any issue.

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How should I execute it correctly?

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Follow the tutorial I think. :slight_smile:

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