Thanks for Discord Channel and invite for !

Hopefully the halving bring some good things to Bitcoin and to the Forum and maybe more people will use it .
Also fingers crossed that all goes well on the halving and there is no problem on the blockchain.

If this discord channel will stay longer and not only for the halving maybe add it to the Help button .

Maybe a quiz related to bitcoin / bitcointalk.org or a prize for the closest prediction of the price when the halving occurs could be entertaining?

I'm a regular member of a fairly big discord server with 20000+ members and a little over 10 staff and one big problem I noticed in it is handling people who spam in there. With limited moderators it's not unheard of that someone spams the channel with memes/shitposts/NSFW every 30 minutes and the repetitive nature of these offenses creates a burden for moderation in that you need moderators who monitor the server full time, or else it deteriorates into a cesspool of language because many people on discord tend to act like kids. And then there are server raids.

I'm assuming this server is going to have a couple thousand members on it so the chances of someone inviting a lot of bot users to flood the channels is real, and I have witnessed this in other servers.

If this server is to be a long term social outlet then you should get Dyno Premium (a bot which can be programmed to kick/ban/mute people) in your server along with a bunch of hired staff who are willing to maintain it. And herein lies the problem. There are almost 3 million registered users here, I'll assume only a few hundred thousand of those are active, most of them bounty hunters, but still that number quickly reaches the size of the largest discord servers. This forum only has a few dozen staff in total, some of which are not active or have no interest in moderating a discord community, which is tiring on it's own, but it's even more tiring if same staff are simultaneously moderating their respective boards, so this is double moderation work which is even more tiring.

So as a result of that spam is inadvertently let though and the quality of conversation in discord channels goes down to altcoins board/cryptotalk levels. This drives away many members who want to hold quality conversations.

I have also seen server owners temp. suspended if their server violates discord TOS as the result of users abusing it, I mean particularly posting NSFW stuff in non-NSFW channels. You need to protect yourselves from this liability by either banishing NSFW content or making a special channel for it.

AFAIK the Discord server isn't official. It was just created by Cyrus, who also happens to be a Bitcointalk admin. For the time being, I'm helping out in moderating it though I can't guarantee I'll always be active. We'll see how this goes I guess.

Even if the current discord server is not official, that does not mean it can't be used as a trial to eventually implement something official, possibly with forum implementation. I wouldn't think that something similar to discord or slack would be terribly difficult to implement.

I was referring to NotATether's comment about spammers/trolls posting bad things that makes chatting on the server to be undesirable. 

There are already some Bots that can verify Users on Discord and also some other nice Bots !

altdentifier
https://altdentifier.com/
Server Captcha Bot
https://top.gg/bot/captcha

There are so many other Bots that are useful !
If you need some help on it let me know .
But guess you know how to setting them up .

Is there any way to create a Discord account over Tor without giving them a phone number for "verification"?

Did you use the App or the browser window tap for discord ?
Normaly when you using the browser window tab it should be ok with just email verification and it should be working !
But dont know if that is working on tor because i dont use it .

I'm still not familiar with discord but it seems okay for me to try. But I'm a bit curious why we should choose discord for a chatroom? Not something more familiar like a telegram group?

As you said "halving party", I assume we will have a fun activity or program related to halving. I hope it will be an event, contest, competition that can be joined by all members (beginner - experienced members). I've still no idea about what kind of activity or program, but I hope it can meet these criteria:
- easy/simple
- entertain/fun
- educated (about halving)

>I think the best option: contest or competition.

I've tried to join multiple times over different Tor circuits. Each time I've been stopped by the "Give us your phone number" nonsense, but each time it has shown me the channel name and details, how many people are online, etc. I'm not familiar with Discord, but it seems like I actually join the channel and then am immediately asked to verify? That would perhaps explain my name showing up in the room.

Edit: I got a glimpse of the channel that time before it kicked me out asking for a phone number, so it seems that I've written above is indeed the case. Shame we couldn't use something a bit more privacy respecting like Riot. I also won't be signing up if it requires a phone number or a clearnet connection.