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E-Mensa
Managing Editor
A great part of Discord is the ability to create group chats with people. Sometimes group chats can be among friends and last a long time. Sometimes the purposes of group chats are more specific and temporary, like for a Presidential campaign or radio show.
But these group chats are always harmless. And like a DM with someone, there's no reason to go back and scrub your record of that group DM. But for some reason, that's exactly what some people do.
Far too often, when a group DM on Discord has remained dormant for a long time, someone will randomly decide to leave. A group DM that was otherwise not bothering anyone, resting quietly and peacefully in chronological order with the rest of your DMs is suddenly disturbed.
And worse still, this often sets off a chain reaction of other people leaving a DM. Whereas before everyone was perfectly happy to let an old DM sit in their queue, they suddenly feel this compelling and insatiable need to leave it — creating more and more pings in the process.
Before July, this group DM had sat undisturbed, bothering nobody, for months. But suddenly, the compulsive and illogical need to leave occurred to one member — setting off a chain reaction of pings, additional departures, additional pings, additional departures, additions pings, additional departures, additional pings, all for no reason!!
The simple fact of the matter is that inactive group DMs don't hurt you. They don't cause you pain or harm. And oftentimes, there may actually be content there you want to look back on later on. If you leave group DMs just to leave them — and pass pain and agony onto the other members of the DM — you are, quite simply, a monster.
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