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BGTSCC Discord Server

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Baldur's Gate: The Sword Coast Chronicles currently maintains a public Discord server. If you would like to join this Discord, you can use the invite provided below.

BGTSCC Discord

Some important notes about the use of Discord and BGTSCC.

First, please avoid sending excessive direct messages to staff members over Discord. Bug reports, suggestions, event requests, and and so on should be handled through the appropriate means on the forums, not by sending messages to staff on Discord. Direct messages are permitted to be used when reporting rule breaking or arguments between players that are in need of moderation.

Second, the public BGTSCC Discord is considered officially moderated by BGTSCC staff. If a player or staff member is acting inappropriately on this Discord server, please send in a report to the Discord server moderators, forum moderators, or global admins.

Third, we cannot moderate content that occurs on private Discord servers. Responsibility for moderating arguments or bad behavior that occurs on private Discords falls to the moderators or admins of those Discords, not the BGTSCC team. We will only handle reports on behavior that occurs on private Discords if it is of an extreme level of harassment. An extreme level of harassment is defined as consistent acts over a prolonged period of time done with the explicit purpose of abusing other players. A theoretical example of this might be inviting new players to a private Discord server and making them humiliate themselves over voice channels in return for some in-game reward.

Finally, the forums remain the primary supported means for keeping up to date on the server and communicating with staff. Staff are not obliged to use the above Discord server. All formal activities should occur over the forums where they can be better recorded and available to all players. This Discord does not and will not support IC channels, market channels, voice channels, and so on. DM requests and followups should be done over forum PMs, and bug reports, suggestions, journals, and roleplay posts should be posted to their respective forums.
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Re: BGTSCC Discord Servers

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A question:
Rhifox wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:45 am Third, we cannot moderate content that occurs on private Discord servers. Responsibility for moderating arguments or bad behavior that occurs on private Discords falls to the moderators or admins of those Discords, not the BGTSCC team. We will only handle reports on behavior that occurs on private Discords if it is of an extreme level of harassment. An extreme level of harassment is defined as consistent acts over a prolonged period of time done with the explicit purpose of abusing other players.
What if this behavior occurs in private messages among people on the public Discord? I think it is reasonable to report this behavior.
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Re: BGTSCC Discord Servers

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Xorena wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:31 am A question:
Rhifox wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:45 am Third, we cannot moderate content that occurs on private Discord servers. Responsibility for moderating arguments or bad behavior that occurs on private Discords falls to the moderators or admins of those Discords, not the BGTSCC team. We will only handle reports on behavior that occurs on private Discords if it is of an extreme level of harassment. An extreme level of harassment is defined as consistent acts over a prolonged period of time done with the explicit purpose of abusing other players.
What if this behavior occurs in private messages among people on the public Discord? I think it is reasonable to report this behavior.
There is a limit to what we can realistically moderate in private spaces. Players have the power themselves to block other players and prevent them from contacting them over PMs if there is an issue between them. We can also help mediate between feuding players if asked, but BGTSCC staff can't be expected to moderate all incidents in all locations. Ultimately, private Discords have their own moderators and admins, and players have their own tools for protecting themselves (blocking or setting their account to require already being a contact before someone can send them a message), and in disputes in private spaces these options should be pursued first before going to BGTSCC staff. If those options are exhausted, and harassment is still ongoing (such as through creating new accounts after a previous one was blocked, or if it reflects a pattern of behavior that is also happening in-game or over the forums), then that may be considered an extreme level of harassment and can be reported.

If it becomes a problem, we can also institute rules against contacting people through Discord PMs without previous consent from that player.
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