The Transparency Report details Discord reports, bans, server deletions, and more.
The Discord Transparency Report goes into the number of account and server deletions and bans that have taken place. The reasons for the deletions and bans are described without naming specific people/groups.
In the first six months of 2021, there have been 437,190 reported accounts on Discord. June 2021 had over 80,000 reports alone. Not every report led to a banned account as some accounts had their actions moved to lower-harm sections.
Discord assumes that the number of users joining the platform each day may be the case for the higher number of reports. By December 2020, Discord had 140 million active users monthly, which is now over 150 million since Sept. 2021.
There is also the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic encouraged users to send reports.
Reports of harassment continued to be commonly high, with reports of spam and Extremist or Violent Content reports rising in numbers.
Most reports resulted in no action as only 103,667 of the reports had Discord act. CSAM and Self-Harm reports were acted upon the most, with an increase of reports that had action taken in said categories compared to the second half of last year.
CSAM reports that had action taken increased from 33 per cent to 45 per cent, while Self-Harm reports that had action taken rose from 13 per cent to 23 per cent. The category that had the highest number of reports that had action taken was Cybercrime.
In total, 470,675 non-spam accounts were removed in the first half of 2021, increasing from 2020's second half by over 200,000 non-spam accounts.
In the first half of 2021, 19,744,476 spam accounts were removed or halted from spam actions, making for a total of 20,215,151 bans/halted actions in the first half of 2021.
A total of 43,044 Discord servers were removed in the first half of 2021. Exploitative Content was the most common server deletion reason, rising from 5,103 in the second half of 2020 to 11,450.
Account warnings dropped overtime from 28,170 to 23,918. Server warnings also dropped from 3,999 to 3,884. "The downward trend in warnings is interesting to observe in conjunction with the rise in deletions," Nelly, who posted the Transparency Report, said.
There were 9.947 accounts Discord reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). 150 cases were for highly harming endangerment or grooming situations involving children.
A total of 11,951 servers were deleted proactively, while 10,736 servers were deleted reactively. This chart makes up 22,687 of the 43,044 servers removed in the first half of 2021.
Cybercrime led to the most server deletions in the chart, with 8,180 server deletions.
Of the 470,465 accounts banned, 3,226 of those accounts were unbanned out of 104,635 total ban appeals sent to Discord. 6.91 per cent of accounts unbanned were originally banned for other issues.
Finally, there were a total of 2,632 legal requests from United States law enforcement related to criminal cases about certain Discord users. A total of 2,229 of them legally valid, according to Discord.
There were 378 legal requests from law enforcement outside of the United States for emergency disclosure. Out of 306 identified accounts, 158 cases had their basic subscriber information granted to law enforcement.
In July 2021, Discord acquisitioned Sentropy, an AI-based software company, to help combat rule-breaking content by detecting and removing it better.
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