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According to recent reports, Discord is flagging normal (SFW) images as ‘explicit or inappropriate’ content for users. As a result, people are having trouble sending images because they are wrongfully flagged.

Discord is a popular social networking platform that is used by people all over the world. The company regularly modifies its platform by introducing software patches for reported problems and adding new features.

However, some recent changes appear to have damaged Discord’s inappropriate image monitoring system.

Reports of Discord flagging images as explicit content

The platform seems to categorize normal images as NSFW (not safe for work). These include those from some cartoon-based comics or children’s toys,

“When @discord labels a picture of a fish (gurnard) as explicit content and won’t let you post it in a friend’s discord. LMAO,” one user said.

Another wrote: “I tried to show my community on discord that I’m not the only one that points out feet in the game and got met with a this content is too explicit.”

According to a Redditor, Discord flagged a short clip from an animated toon as unsuitable and won’t let them send it to a group chat.

Another Twitter user claims that even a snippet of an article they are attempting to transfer to someone is being misclassified.

No official acknowledgment

The problem has persisted for quite some time and has yet to be resolved by the developers. There are currently no workarounds to resolve this issue.

A user had tweeted last year about the issue: “Hey @discord your explicit content filter really shouldn’t be a requirement for all the community features to be enabled. It’s extremely sensitive and flags some PG content as “explicit” with no way for the server owner to override. This drives people away from our server.”

Others even said their selfies were flagged.

Some were curious about how the image filtering system worked. “How does that happen tho? Is there someone who flags in from inside the group or doesn’t discord automatically monitor private groups for content?” they wrote.

We hope Discord takes users’ reports into account and brings a solution.

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