Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images

Discord 误封了超过 8,000 名用户，原因竟是发布了网格图及其他“无害”图片

Some users were banned from Discord after posting chessboards, game textures, and Minecraft inventories. 一些用户因在 Discord 上发布棋盘、游戏纹理和《我的世界》（Minecraft）物品栏截图而被封禁。

Discord says a bug affecting its safety system caused it to mistakenly ban more than 8,000 accounts since May. The platform’s statement follows a wave of reports from users over the past week, who say they’ve been banned for posting images containing grids, such as chessboards, game textures, and even Minecraft inventories. Discord 表示，其安全系统出现了一个漏洞，导致自 5 月以来误封了超过 8,000 个账户。此前一周，大量用户反馈称，他们因发布包含网格状内容的图片（如棋盘、游戏纹理，甚至是《我的世界》物品栏截图）而被封禁，Discord 随后发布了上述声明。

Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord cofounder and chief technology officer, writes that the bug impacted around 200 users who posted “grid-like” pictures, in addition to about 8,000 people who posted “other benign images” since May 2026. “Everyone affected has now been unbanned,” Vishnevskiy says. Discord 联合创始人兼首席技术官 Stanislav Vishnevskiy 表示，该漏洞影响了约 200 名发布“网格状”图片的用户，以及自 2026 年 5 月以来发布“其他无害图片”的约 8,000 名用户。Vishnevskiy 称：“所有受影响的用户现已解除封禁。”

In a thread on X, Discord writes that its safety system is designed to flag content by “matching it against known harmful material.” This system can produce “false positives,” Discord explains, which is when an employee would step in to review the flagged content. But instead of just temporarily preventing the account from uploading content during the review, a glitch led its system to ban users entirely. 在 X（原 Twitter）的一篇帖子中，Discord 写道，其安全系统的设计初衷是通过“与已知有害材料进行比对”来标记内容。Discord 解释称，该系统可能会产生“误报”，此时通常会有员工介入审核被标记的内容。然而，由于一个故障，系统没有在审核期间仅暂时限制账户上传内容，而是直接将用户彻底封禁。

“When our staff reviewed and cleared those accounts, the same bug prevented the ban from being lifted automatically, so it just stayed in place,” Discord says. Discord 表示：“当我们的员工审核并确认这些账户没有问题时，同一个漏洞导致封禁无法自动解除，因此封禁状态一直持续了下来。”