Have an inbuilt way of saving our bot from failing verification

[renhiyama]

It seems that discord doesn't approves bots which are in multiple guilds by the same user. So this can become an advantage for a end user, who wants to ruin the bot developer's life. Reaching 75 servers, that too without dm advertising or any bad way of advertising, can be considered like a very big achievement. But just because someone hated a bot, they added the bot to multiple testing servers, which made discord team unapprove their bot verification. If discord team wants to stop these bad actors so badly, just revoke access to a user adding to more servers if they already added the bot to one of its own servers. I have seen countless bot devs whose applications were not accepted just because of this, and they then make a new bot with same name, and again start the process of reaching 75 servers. This is like a giant loophole here. Please look into it.

[braindigitalis]

Someone did this to me, but it flagged up the inorganic growth on the page before I was even able to fill out the form.

in this case do not apply - instead you should list out the guild id and owner of of each guild your bot is on and then look for patterns. in my case some one person had made 50 test guilds.

you can then make a one off command that forces the bot to leave all these guilds and then wait before trying again to verify.

moral of the story if the form you fill in flags up inorganic growth don't apply, sort it first...

[advaith1]

if it shows the inorganic growth error it isn't possible to apply until its resolved

[AlmostSuspense]

If you get denied for inorganic growth, it's not due to shared ownership because that is checked before you actually apply. Manual denials are based on much more factors we don't know about because it is an anti-abuse measure to fight bots with bad intention to grow past 100 servers

Not only someone adding your bot to tens of servers won't get you denied, but it is also easily fixable with a quick eval (hi ian) that leaves servers owned by the same set of users

[renhiyama]

@advaith1 we (or I) think new first time bot devs don't know about this fact, and it's too late when this happens, for some people's bots, once they kick their bot out from fake servers, they can continue, but for some, their bot gets blacklisted because it was added to fake servers a lot. Overall, this idea should get implemented so devs don't need to worry once they reach verification. Honestly it does feels bad when you tried to so hard to get to 75 servers, but then you will find out 10 or more servers were fake and so you will feel bad, negative, etc.

[renhiyama]

Also discord team should help and support discord bot devs, instead of pointing issues their bot got one by one.