I didn't claim that it didn't happen to you, or that it never happens. You seemed to be implying that it will always happen, or commonly happen; my experience is proof that it doesn't always happen, and at least as strong evidence for it rarely happening as your experience is of it frequently happening.
>I didn't claim that it didn't happen to you, or that it never happens.
The following is worded in such a way that it very much reads that you're saying it doesn't happen...
>When other people say that something happens to them, why should I simply take them at their word when it contradicts the evidence actually available to me?
You've very clearly said that if something hasn't happened to you, you're not likely to believe someone when they tell you it's happened to them. Further...
>You seemed to be implying that it will always happen, or commonly happen...
... there was no implication. The comment you initially responded to clearly stated specific instances that will trigger the phone number requirement, the same instances that are very clearly stated by Discord[1] itself.
> The comment you initially responded to clearly stated specific instances that will trigger the phone number requirement
And I'm saying that I've personally been (as far as I can tell) in some of the situations described without encountering such requirement, therefore "will" is hyperbolic.
It especially doesn't make sense to me that there would be a flag for "joining too many servers" because they put a hard cap on that anyway. And indeed, the support article says that this triggers for joining too many servers in a short period of time.
If it doesn't rain one day, that's not evidence there exists no rain
That's about the level of evidence that your specific user account offers to you about whether phone verification is a thing their anti-spam algorithms can trigger...
