Discord for Beginners
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is a communication service - a place to chat, talk and hangout with your community of NFT enthusiasts, gamers and friends. It is similar to joining an iMessage/WhatsApp/Telegram/Facebook group but with wider engagement capabilities from messaging, voice channels to video and games.
Typically, each NFT project has its own server (community) on Discord. Joining a Discord server first requires creating a Discord login, then accepting a specific server's Discord invite like .
Direct Messages are conversations outside of a public setting, outside of a Discord server. Occasionally, bad actors use Discord DMs to scam, phish, or socially engineer situations via Discord DMs.
For your security, we strongly recommend turning off your DMs in both Discord User Settings and per Discord server to limit exposure to potentially harmful links or phishing attempts.
Turn off DMs in Discord User Settings:
In User Settings, go to Privacy & Safety.
Toggle to the left to turn off Allow direct messages from server members. This setting is applied when you join a new server and does not retroactively apply to your existing servers.
Turn off DMs within a specific Discord server:
On desktop: Right-click the OnChainMonkey server name, select Privacy Settings and toggle to the left to turn off ‘Allow direct messages from server members.’
On mobile: Select the server that you want to modify; press and expand the horizontal kebab icon (…) then turn off ‘Allow Direct Messages’.
Pinned messages are similar to booking marking a message in a specific Discord channel, and accessible from the thumbtack icon at the top navigation bar. Note: Messages can only be pinned by Team and Moderators on OCM Discord.
Threads are sub-conversations branched from a Discord channel. A drop-down menu of all active threads within each Discord channel can be found at the top navigation bar in the clickable hashtag (#) icon.
Join a Thread
Click the hashtag (#) icon located at the top navigation bar
Right-click the thread that you’re interested in joining and select Join Thread.
Once you have joined the thread, right-click on the thread again and go to Notification Settings to update your notification preferences.
Each channel can have separate notification settings customized to your preference. To customize notifications for specific Discord channels, right-click on the channel of interest and select Notification Settings.
Each Discord profile is identified by their Discord Username (e.g. misskeeneye#6688) and Discord User ID (18-digit ID, ex. 981928333984757183).
To help Moderators take action against bad actors on Discord, we may ask for the bad actor’s Discord Username and User ID. Usernames are easy to locate, but modifiable by a bad actor. However, the User ID is static and cannot be changed, but only visible in Discord Developer Mode.
Developer Mode is activated in App Settings > Advanced - toggle the Developer Mode setting to the right to turn on Developer Mode.
After activating Developer Mode, right-click on a Discord Username and select Copy ID, to copy a Discord member’s User ID.
We are migrating some OCM to Discord forums, a new Discord feature. Functionally, Discord forums is another chat space but it allows chats to be organized with less clutter, better visibility compared to the Discord threads, and focused search capabilities.
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