reporting back: banned for self botting
now. I'm thinking about rerunning that same thing again on a cloud vm (to avoid ip risk, but discord probably known public ips form major providers). and I need a new account to not risk my main account.
I can create a new account and do sms verification but I think an older account would be better. anyone familiar with a good service? I want it as cheap as possible. this is a one time thing. an year old sms verified account should be good enough.
post:
I was using DiscordChatExporter to export a user (not myself) messages from a big channel (that channel have around 10m messages). I exported around 30k/36k and was banned (I think was just banned for one day, will check tomorrow). this is a second account I use but it is a few years old. they didn't do an ip ban (my main account is logged in same computer and working fine)
I did it on chunks. one chunk for each year.
DiscordChatExporter.Cli.exe ^
export -c "channelid" ^
-t "thisistotallymytoken145145" ^
--utc -f json ^
--after "2022-01-01" --before "2023-01-01" --filter "from:username"
they emailed me to change password and also sent this.
>Hi,
Your recent activity broke Discord’s rules and we have taken action on your account. You can learn more about this violation by viewing your account standing.
When we reactively or proactively discover a violation of the Community Guidelines, we may take a number of enforcement steps, including issuing warnings, removing content, suspending or removing the violative accounts and/or servers, and potentially reporting them to law enforcement.
I'm surprised they let me get that far. I haven't really looked at the repo but I think they are hitting the messages endpoint (so it is getting all messages regardless of user filter) and only after that they process the filters. I got that intuition given how long it look but didn't act on it. wish I did export everything. would been fun for sentiment analysis with good amount of data.
edit:
so I tried to run the thing a day later after unban with new token and was banned right away. two day ban. I'll just buy a couple of phone verified accounts and use those. for those curious
