Also, Discord is not private, it simply can require invites.
Let me be more specific about this. It's not
private as implied by Poodlestrike simply because the number of people who can see it
can be limited. Privacy has further connotations to it. PMs/DMs are "private" because there's only two parties involved and if both agree to privacy, privacy is maintained. (Except in cases where a third party can read those PM/DMs.) Discord is closer to a forum you need an account for to read and not all Discords require invites either. (To make matters worse, some Discords have invites, but they're incredibly lax about it, having universal invites that last for years!) If there are hundreds of people in a Discord you should not have the expectation of privacy, literally every message could be logged by someone (Discord itself already logs (but does not preserve) every message) and used for nefarious purposes. Even a small Discord like The Bire's has close to a hundred members and an equal number of Glen alts, although only about 25-30 are regularly active, the difference is unlike the Bire forum it cannot be read by someone without an approved account. There are accounts often online in the Bire Discord that never post (ala Moblin), I myself are often AFK but still online there simply because I don't bother to close Discord treating it like Steam, etc. This "problem" would be compounded in any large Discord like I imagine a NintendoERA Discord would be where there could be hundreds of accounts there purely for surveillance and harassment generation purposes. (Again, we have to use the ResetERA.com staff mentality of everyone acting in bad faith at all times.)
Let me doubly compound the issue here. You can make Twitter into a "private" forum too. If Bruno went private on Twitter then nobody he
doesn't approve of could read his tweets, but they would still exist and Twitter would still be a "public social media platform." IF his tweet was discovered, say by someone forwarding them to ResetERA.com staff (or posting images of them on The Bire where ResetERA.com staff members saw them), which exception would apply? Does doing this make Twitter have "no risk ... leading to harassment" then?
They simply cannot use a public/private distinction here to write exceptions into their off-site/on-site rules, which themselves have never been codified. Either all off-site and on-site criticism should be held in equal weight or it should not. Or, you must write a specific exception that you do not accept Discord/IRC/chat evidence, only Twitter evidence or whatever. Which brings us back to the larger point of their incompetence in maintaining the rules and updating them properly, something they do not do, ever. We can assume bad faith in the ResetERA.com staff because they do not codify the rules, enforce the unwritten rules and THEN point people to the written rules as what guidelines to follow despite there being other uncodified rules that are enforced more often than the written ones. This is not hard but they refuse to do it.
edit: To make another comparison to The Bire. The Bire also has many unwritten rules (like not spamming pictures of the Holodomor) but
none of them contradict or supersede the codified rules, which admittingly are nearly non-existent. The point is that the moderation stays entirely consistent and thus, can be believed to be acting in good faith. Even still: BAN THE MODS AND KILL THEM.
