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Ditch Discord. If your friends after all these years haven't set up OOB contact, they're not friends.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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What does oob mean here?
Out of Band - in this case some form of contact outside of Discord.
Out-of-band, I think. I.e. some other means of communication that doesn't go via the same route they normally use.
Out Of Band, i.e. an alternate method to communicate that is separate to the normal method
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I'd of told my kid they are SOL and to learn from their fuck up. Go make a new account kiddo, ask your friends for their discords when you go back to class.
I'd of told my kid
What does it mean to "of tell" someone something?
None of the other explanations have actually given you the real contraction that the above user is employing phonetically: "I'd've" -> "I would have"
It means they never went back to class themselves
Hah! This is the best answer, lol
i'dve told em <- i can hear the local accent in it lol
It's short for "I would have told my kid"
Probably, but "of" is not short for "have"
That depends on your accent.
I don't think "of" has anything to do with an accent.
They're probably thinking of 've (as in "Would've"). That's not the same as "of".
It means "have" would have. It's pronounced of. "Would of"
The f can be dropped. Woulda. "I woulda got it done"
Spelling it "would of" is like spelling "Hello" as "Hell Oh"
People make real friends online. Who they don't know in person. You'd be telling your child to toughen up and get new friends.
Ever had to move when you were a kid? Kids have to make new friends all the time. So do adults. Being forced to make new friends because of your own mistakes is part of life. You talk about it like it’s abuse.
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Yes, because welcome to the internet. This is what we used to deal with.
Now what’s wrong with that? 30+ years online and it’s a problem all of a sudden?
Amazing parenting to let them hurt themselves and their friends because you couldn't educate them well enough to avoid a scam.
Edit: I am not saying the parent should have educated the child better, I am just saying when you go down this path of "well you should have known better" then the responsibility is on the parents to teach the kids better.
Well our parents were/are mostly tech illiterate, were they also bad parents because they couldn't educate us on it? The new generation have 100x the ability to self educate than we did as well.
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It's not about education, it's often something you need to learn the hard way. It's way too easy to be distracted or busy and hit a bad link. Losing access to a discord account hardly counts as hurt, unless it's linked to bank stuff.
but had to go through an AI support bot that kept closing the ticket
In general, that practice is absolutely disrespectful towards customers and should be met with complete rejection
Any company using AI support is absolutely fucked in the head imo. It's absolute dogshit.
I had a phone company where I had to call to add a new sim to my account because my previous phone was stolen and the fucking AI says "we have sent you a link via text or how to add a sim. Thank you, good bye." And it fucking hung up on me.
I didn't have the phone to get the text because it had been stolen!
To be fair, when AI assisted support it's done well you don't even notice. Don't get me wrong, 99% of support chatbots are useless, lazily implemented, awful to deal with, and just waste human time. Companies should focus on good support, the specific tooling is irrelevant. I've dealt with support humans that act like robots and robots that quickly escalate my issue to a human that can solve my problem.
How is this news? Kid got pwned; it's a learning experience to lose your account because you clicked on an untrusted link. Discord sucks, and their support sucks, but I don't think they did anything wrong here beyond that.
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