During the coronavirus pandemic, not only video calling apps they lived their golden age and gained a large number of users. Video games, too experienced spectacular growth due to the confinement that we suffer in our homes to try to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Within the video game sector, there is Discord, an application that allows you to perform audio calls, video calls and hold holdings through chat. This application is widely used by both groups of friends and streamers to keep in touch with their followers.
As in any messaging application, if we do not want a person to contact us, we can block permanently. This option is also available in Discord, a feature that allows maintain a user chat free of toxity.
But what if you get banned from chat or banned from Discord? If you want to know how to unban on Discord I invite you to continue reading this article.
What is Discord
Before knowing how to ban or unban a user, we must know how Discord works. Unlike other messaging or video calling apps, Discord works across servers. Each user, group of friends or streamer, can create their own server, a server where all friends or followers will meet through an invitation.
All users who are part of a Discord group on the same server, can make calls with each other, as well as video calls and have a conversation with each other through text messages, in the same way that it is done through WhatsApp.
Discord's servers are made up of two channels: text and voice.
Text channels
Text channels swith independent spaces to speak by text. In Discord, conversations are kept organized and allow all users to speak together. In addition, channels can be created within text channels to create specific topics.
For example, within a text channel, we can create another where users can share the games they plan to play, they want to buy if they find any offers ... without that information being lost by the general text chat.
Voice channels
Voice channels allow us to use voice and video to communicate with other people. The operation is different from that of typical video calling applications, since we only have to click on the channel to enter it and start talking.
The users that are part of this server, they know at all times if we are connected to come in and talk, greet by video, share the screen. Within the privacy options, we can change our status so that it shows us connected, disconnected or hide our online presence so that no one bothers us.
What can we do on Discord
Voice chat
One of the main attractions of Discord is the ability to make voice chats. As I mentioned above, to chat by voice, we just have to click on the name of the voice channel where our friends are to start talking directly, without having to wait for them to pick up or answer the call.
To join a voice chat, we just have to click on the button representing a loudspeaker and start talking. Within the Discord settings, we can select the input source that we want to use, which allows us to configure the application to use an external microphone, the microphone of our headphones, the microphone of our laptop.
Voice chats are managed by the server owner or by a series of moderators that the administrator can appoint and empower them to manage the channel and maintain order at all times.
Moderators can use filters to find the type of content that does not conform to server standards / channel and thus be able to carry out its maintenance actions in a much faster and more effective way.
Make video calls
The process for making video calls on Discord is the same as for making voice calls or chats. First of all, we must click on the icon representing the volume.
Next, we must click on the button that shows the word Video. This word will only be available as long as our team has a webcam connected. If not, logically we will not be able to make video calls.
Share screen
If what we want is to share the screen of our equipment, we must carry out the same process as when making voice chats. Once we have clicked on the icon that represents a loudspeaker, we must click on the Display button.
This button is located just to the right of the video button that allows us to make video calls. This function is designed to broadcast video game matches, although its main use is dedicated to sharing the screen to solve operating problems on the computer.
Add special functions with bots
Thanks to bots, we can add a large number of additional features to Discord channels, from listening to music, to automatically responding to certain words through an automatic translator ...
Previously In AndrodGuías we publish an article with the indispensable and necessary best Discord bots and best bots to listen to music on Discord.
How to ban a user on Discord
Being an application that allows a large number of users to be contacted, the process to ban a user who is crossing the line, is insulting other users or is creating a toxic environment it is a very simple and fast process and it is much more effective than kicking the user in question, since he can re-enter again if he has an invitation link from the server at hand.
For ban a user So that it cannot access or interact on the server, we must perform the steps that I show you below:
- First of all, we must access the User name we want to ban.
- Next, we click on the right button of the mouse (or press and hold the finger on the name if we do it from a smartphone) and among all the options that are displayed, We select the Ban option.
- Next, we must select the time during which the user will be banned, time that can be from 24 hours until it is a permanent ban and the reason, if we consider it necessary.
From this moment, the user will be expelled from the server and will not be able to re-enter, unless a new account is created, although Discord's protection measures record the IP of users to prevent new accounts from being created.
How to unban a user on Discord
Once we have banned a user, they will become part of the Bans section. The section Bans, is within the Server settings.
For unban a Discord user previously banned, we must go to this section, click on the name of the user that we want to unban, click on the right button of the mouse (or click on the name if we do it from a smartphone) and select the only option that shows us: Unban.
You have been banned from Discord
If you've been banned from Discord, the reasons can only be known by you, but there are many reasons why you can be banned from this platform, whether it is for sharing pornographic content, sending spam messages, posting hate messages ... we go for the same reasons why you cannot ban on any other platform.
If the ban is only related to one server, we can try to contact the owner and present the case to him to try to convince him to unblock us.
However if the ban affects the entire platform and we cannot access any server, we must contact the platform to investigate our ban and, if possible, remove us from the service.
The easiest and fastest method to do it is through the Discord website clicking on this link. In the first drop-down box, we must select the option Trust and Security.
In the How can we help section, we must select the option Appeals, age update and other questions.
Then another drop-down box will be displayed with the name Appeals, age update or other questions. From this drop-down box, we select the option Appeal an action against my account or bot.
Finally, another drop-down box will be displayed with the name What do you want to appeal, where we must select An action taken on my account.
Platforms on which Discord is available
Discord is available on Windows platforms, operating system in which we can use all of each of the functions without any limitation.
However, both in macOS and in Linux, iOS and Android we have a series of limitations that they do not allow us to share the audio when we are sharing the screen, a limitation that is expected to disappear at some point.
To download any of the different versions of Discord available, you can do it through this link Which takes us to the official Discord page.