{"id":753942,"date":"2025-11-26T07:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fLVj3bQjBgGcFSYfT967SY"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:48:58","slug":"helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Helldivers 2&#8217;s community manager gets mistaken for an automaton by Discord, gets locked out of account for over 40 hours due to &#8216;sending too many DMs too fast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The team over at Arrowhead Games has been wildly busy with Helldivers 2\u2014which is to be expected. After a meteoric rise in concurrent players that forced a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/helldivers-2-maximum-player-cap-has-been-increased-but-arrowhead-still-expects-queues\/\">raised cap to 700,000<\/a>, the game&apos;s playerbase has swelled to near-unmanageable levels which, as you might imagine, would keep a community manager very busy.<\/p>\n<p>So busy in fact that Discord mistook said community manager for an automaton. At around 4 pm GMT February 21, Katherine Baskin (who is also the author of those charming Super Earth High Command dispatches you see on the game&apos;s official Discord server) was locked out of her account due to &#8220;sending too many DMs too fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Helldivers 2 server has over 400,000 people in it and I get [hundreds] of DMs a day about game support, moderation, etc,&#8221; Baskin wrote. &#8220;Can I get my account re-enabled pls? Sent in a ticket too.&#8221; In a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baskinator\/status\/1760338862390284635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reply<\/a>, she added: &#8220;I mean, I&apos;m flattered Discord thinks I type fast enough to be a robot, but come on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:585px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:110.09%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"JmYUYMASLztkz8aS2pZbEi\" name=\"helldivers-community-manager-tweet-1.png\" alt=\"Three posts. The first reads: \"Hey @discord_support I just got locked out of my account because of 'sending too many DM's too fast' the Helldivers 2 server has over 400k people in it and i get 100s of DMs a day about game support, moderation, etc.. can i get my account reenabled pls? sent in a ticket too.\" The second reads: \"Hey @discord_support I just got locked out of my account because of 'sending too many DM's too fast' the Helldivers 2 server has over 400k people in it and i get 100s of DMs a day about game support, moderation, etc.. can i get my account reenabled pls? sent in a ticket too.\" The third reads: \"I was responding to messages from players about bugs, server problems, patches, suggestions. How can I do my job if I can't talk to our players? I mean, I'm flattered discord thinks I type fast enough to be a robot, but come on.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"585\" height=\"644\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @baskinator on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately, Baskin would be met with radio silence\u2014long enough to create a huge backlog of work for the besieged manager. That&apos;s despite raising a ticket and tagging the app&apos;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baskinator\/status\/1760717473110782354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support multiple times on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:588px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:73.13%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"tEM88R8kdjEHWnHPuhYka9\" name=\"helldivers-community-manager-tweet-2.png\" alt=\"A quote tweet that reads: \"This is still ongoing. Lost an entire day of work now. \ud83d\ude23 @discord_support @discord.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"588\" height=\"430\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @baskinator on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:584px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:34.42%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"8L9JMqrUeASbbVzQaifBXF\" name=\"helldivers-community-manager-tweet-3.png\" alt=\"A post that reads: \"Heading into another day with no answer, no help here.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast-2.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"584\" height=\"201\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @baskinator on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I keep reading horror stories of Discord support never responding to these tickets,&#8221; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baskinator\/status\/1760932520978153849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baskin wrote<\/a> at around 8 am GMT on February 23. &#8220;I&apos;m still locked out of my account that owns the Helldivers 2 Discord. Literally can&apos;t do my job and now a weekend is approaching when more people will pour into the discord and game.&#8221; Finally, Arrowhead Games CEO Johan Pilestedt rolled up his sleeves and got involved:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:575px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:85.91%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ujNXfdjmUizAWtyXqdMauN\" name=\"helldivers-community-manager-tweet-4.png\" alt=\"A post that reads: \"If you don't see any updates from us here. It's because our lovely @baskinator got locked out of her account because of helping too many players with support tickets. Also, total silence from @discord_support - which is a different strategy to what we use for @ArrowheadGS and @helldivers2 \ud83e\udd37\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast-3.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"575\" height=\"494\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @Pilestedt on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That seemed to do the trick. At 10:40 am GMT, February 23, community manager Baskin was finally allowed to manage the community again. Assuming she took to Twitter at around the time she both lost and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/baskinator\/status\/1760978240611733813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regained access<\/a>, Baskin was locked out of her account for roughly 42 hours. &#8220;I&apos;m going to bet tagging in the big boss Pilestedt was the right move,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:586px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:81.40%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"L7TzKJuseyk7ao9XMYCDwX\" name=\"helldivers-community-manager-tweet-5.png\" alt=\"A post that reads: \"We are SO back \ud83d\udcaa I'm going to bet tagging in the big boss @Pilestedt was the right move \ud83d\ude05\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast-4.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"586\" height=\"477\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @baskinator)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the cynic in me expects support to be understaffed or underfunded across the board in apps like Discord, it&apos;s still pretty shocking that the community manager of one of the biggest breakout games this year wasn&apos;t able to get their attention without dragging her company&apos;s CEO into the melee. Still, I&apos;m glad she&apos;s back\u2014the silence from high command while I was defending Mantes from the automaton scourge last night was unsettling.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team over at Arrowhead Games has been wildly busy with Helldivers 2\u2014which is to be expected. After a meteoric rise in concurrent players that forced a raised cap to 700,000, the game&apos;s playerbase has swelled to near-unmanageable levels which, as you might imagine, would keep a community manager very busy. So busy in fact that Discord mistook said community manager for an automaton. At around 4 pm GMT February 21, Katherine Baskin (who is also the author of those charming Super Earth High Command dispatches you see on the game&apos;s official Discord server) was locked out of her account due to &#8220;sending too many DMs too fast.&#8221; &#8220;The Helldivers 2 server has over 400,000 people in it and I get [hundreds] of DMs a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/helldivers-2s-community-manager-gets-mistaken-for-an-automaton-by-discord-gets-locked-out-of-account-for-over-40-hours-due-to-sending-too-many-dms-too-fast\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[9848,8911,434,2308,787],"class_list":["post-753942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-arrowhead","tag-arrowhead-game-studios","tag-co-op","tag-discord","tag-third-person-shooter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Helldivers 2&#039;s community manager gets mistaken for an automaton by Discord, gets locked out of account for over 40 hours due to &#039;sending too many DMs too fast&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The team over at Arrowhead Games has been wildly busy with Helldivers 2\u2014which is to be expected. 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