And giving the option of letting human moderators decide whether something counts as not NSFW could possibly help retrain the bot, though I'd understand why you wouldn't want to let random people do it like captchas. Approval would at least give us a choice in the matter. What if anything that got flagged by the bots as NSFW would get passed on to server moderators to approve or disapprove, or even clearly mark as NSFW vs SFW? As it is currently, server admins essentially have no choice but to bow to the bot's decisions, regardless of whether it's right or not. I have a feature request that I think would be a better workaround than just sending us off to Discord Support to report it try and 'retrain' the AI. I run a community server so there's nothing I can do to disable this even if I wanted to, since it's a SFW server, but this is getting in the way of server activities. I've complained about this issue before, and I appreciate that now Discord actually tells you why things fail to upload (being because of the NSFW bot filter, compared to before where it just failed to upload with no explanation whatsoever), but the false positives are still an extremely annoying and unfixable issue.

Thus, the obvious solution is a server setting, or a channel setting, to disable the explicit content filter.Ī lot of completely safe for work artwork, photos, and images are getting wrongly flagged as NSFW. I understand that people running other types of servers might feel differently. I also feel it's incredibly important to communicate to my users that I trust them, and that I am not censoring their posts, just sorting them. If you want to mark a channel as NSFW, click on the gear icon next to it. Then, create a new channel, edit it by clicking on the gear icon, and enable NSFW Channel. There is one channel for SFW artwork and one for NSFW artwork. To make an NSFW channel on Discord, you must first open the desktop version of Discord. I don't want to mark the channels as NSFW though, because people shouldn't be posting NSFW content in them. On my own private server, I feel it would be better to have a thousand NSFW messages accidentally get through than one false positive get blocked. If it happened to me once in my life, I'd understand, but it's happened to me personally so many times that I've lost count.Īt the very least it should be something that each discord server can turn on or off in their channels. That's an astronomically high number to me. These aren't particularly active servers - I'd guess that about 1 in 100 SFW images is being incorrectly flagged as NSFW by the automated filter.

About once a day I see someone post something in a NSFW channel on one of my active servers just because Discord flagged it NSFW as a false positive.

Discord servers with nsfw channels