Fix for Nitro Gift Yoinkers
Part I. The problem
Someone sets up some sort of program on their account and joins a lot of discords. Once a user in any of the discords drops a gift into a channel that the Yoinker has visible access to, regardless if they're currently on the channel, the gift is immediately claimed.
If you're a reader here and in a community server with a couple of hundred people, you may have one yourself.
The only way to track these people down is not cost-effective. Lock a channel down so only one role has "View Channel" access. If you use level roles and you see that level 5+ members don't automatically swipe the gift, but level 1 members do, then you have your target demographic. Sift through all level 1 members by who have nitro using a spreadsheet, then give them each access to a locked channel by intervals of 10 (or individually if you have the time). Eventually, you'll be left with one account that will just auto yoink.
This isn't a cost-effective or reliable method. They can easily just keep rejoining. You're wasting gifts, and the ability to access such programs is easy.
Part II. The solution
There are two easy ways that this problem can be solved:
1.) Add some sort of captcha to accept a gift. While this may be annoying, it beats someone who is not a part of the community eating up all the gifts.
2.) A fake randomly generated gift link that doesn't do anything outside of stating who claimed it. This would make for a powerful tool admins/mods could use to weed out potential thieves in their community.
Part III. Why it matters.
Gifting to strangers in a community, and being gifted by a stranger from a community, is a wonderful thing in itself. Yes, you can easily DM it to a friend. But there's something amazing about just shooting a gift out there for anyone who is active can have a go at. For some people, it's just a little show of appreciation for the home away from home the server may represent to them.
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So, you want to keep gifting them nitros to find out whos doing it? Sounds like a good deal for the sniper dude.
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