If this discord channel will stay longer and not only for the halving maybe add it to the
Help button .
If the above would be implemented, someone who causes enough trouble in the discord channel could face repercussions on bitcointalk, and access could be limited to those above certain ranks.
AFAIK the Discord server
isn't official. It was just created by Cyrus, who also happens to be a Bitcointalk admin. For the time being, I'm helping out in moderating it though I can't guarantee I'll always be active. We'll see how this goes I guess.
Even if the current discord server is not official, that does not mean it can't be used as a trial to eventually implement something official, possibly with forum implementation. I wouldn't think that something similar to discord or slack would be terribly difficult to implement.
I am not familiar with all of discord's features, but if it is possible to setup a server such that users have to be manually approved to join, you could create a bot that asks for a user's bitcointalk handle, once received, the bot could send a PM to the bitcointalk account, and the person would need to click on a link within the PM to verify their discord account belonging to the person behind the bitcointalk account. Once verified, the bot could allow the discord account to access the private channel.
If the above would be implemented, someone who causes enough trouble in the discord channel could face repercussions on bitcointalk, and access could be limited to those above certain ranks.
Yes, there's various ways of doing verification, and it shouldn't be too much of a problem to code a little verification script if this was to become more than a one time thing. Currently, I think we could just do a manual verification. At the moment though, its just for the Bitcoin halving event.
I'm personally treating the Discord server as a more relaxing, casual environment to talk about things somewhat related to the forum rather than an extension of Bitcointalk itself.
I was referring to NotATether's
comment about spammers/trolls posting bad things that makes chatting on the server to be undesirable.