Obligatory “not today” disclaimer: actually fucked up over two decades ago, but found out today.

At the dawn of theinternet, I made an account on imgur. I figured (correctly) that I wasn’t going to use it often enough for the username to matter much, so I just went with the first part of my email adress and a number four times.

Turns out that there is such a thing as nazi number code and it’s never a good idea to use an even number of 8s for usernames when you’re not a nazi.

TL;DR: Didn’t know about nazi code, accidentally selected an imgur username ending with the equivalent of a double Hitler salute

  • Zikeji@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    My randomly assigned 4 digit discriminator on Discord back when I joined was “1488”. Didn’t know it was a Nazi calling card until one of the members in the community I was participating in tried to get me banned over it.

    Fortunately it only took a month or so with Discord support to get them to change it. I contemplated buying nitro so people wouldn’t think I was a nazi lol.

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      1 year ago

      I know that’s not the definition being referred to, but it being called a discriminator is tragically hilarious in this case 😁

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      1 year ago

      holy shit lmaooo would be one hell of a tactic to earn money: “pay us money or we’ll make you look like a nazi”

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      1 year ago

      Why the fuck would they ban you over a DISCRIMINATOR??? YOU LITERALLY CAN"T CONTROL IT, IT IS DECIDED BY THE DISCORD PROGRAM!!