Why Do Discord Users HATE Being Pinged? 

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We have the expectation that when we hear the ping it means someone wants to talk to us. And then we are crushed when we find out someone just pinged everyone for no reason

My theory is when people get called, they expect to engage in a conversation, but when the ping does not lead with anything and just gets a little annoying. Imagine this were real life, and I randomly just say "hey, Alex" and than just stop. Alex would most likely expect me to say something but I don't, so it gets unnatural and therefore annoying. Especially if it happens again and again every hour or so. (Alex is just a random name I chose for this explanation).

Personally, I find pings very annoying simply because every time I get pinged I’m always curious about what the message will be. The annoying part is when you get a ping and find out the message wasn’t even worth reading, it’s just straight up disappointing and you feel like you wasted your time (even though it was only 6 seconds wasted). It’s just an awful feeling. The only pings I don’t get annoyed at are ones that come from personal messages on discord because those are actually worth reading. Even if you go to a channel and turn on “mute notifications,” it still gives you pings and you can’t do anything about it. I don’t want to turn on “do not disturb” because that shows that you are online. I don’t want to people to know that I’m online and I also don’t want pings at the same time.

The reason I seem to have found from what I’ve heard from friends is that it’s not being pinged that the probably but rather who is pinging them. If you’re waiting for to get a message from a friend and you go to another tab to wait then a ping comes through you could think it was what you were waiting for only for the ping to be from a server where the staff decided to @everyone.

Honestly, I don't see many people taking it as a big deal. I knew people didn't like them, but I didn't know they hated them. Honestly, I'm mostly frustrated by unnecessary pings or ping spam.

I love getting pinged when I’m trying to place a obsidian block on a nether portal frame

Crazy life hack, everyone: Turn off sound notifications in settings. It is literally the same thing as "Do Not Disturb" but without actually going on DND. It's that simple

If you want to ping people to check out updates, you should make a specific role for it. For EX: “Announcements” could be the title of the role and whoever chooses that role will only get pinged. It doesn’t disturb many people and you can still have people notice your updates.

I'm always on DnD mode but I love getting pinged as I barely speak to anyone so it gives me a glimpse of what having a social life is

For answer 4 and anybody wondering what else to do, make an optional "Revive Chat Ping" role that you can get by reacting to a message. This allows users to be optionally pinged and isnt as annoying. Plus it (maybe) will revive the chat. edit:not to be the "thanks for leik!" person but thank you for bringing attention to this to people who are unclear of what to do

1. the circle is red. red means important when it comes to notifications and discord pings are usually irrelevant unless it's someone you like sharing dm's with. 2. the sound is ridiculous. having alternatives or a way to replace it with a custom sound would be a great solution. 3. some people don't want their systems making sounds. i know some users who mute every single notification they can just because they're annoying to them.

Number 6: The spam ping bots. Yes, they exist. Yes, they are able to ping everyone. No they do not use @everyone... They instead tag each and every single user in the server. For larger servers, this means that they post multiple messages each containing hundreds of individual users being pinged. Honestly kind of surprised that this wasn't mentioned. I don't mind being pinged (actually I quite enjoy it when people want to talk to me). But getting pinged multiple times only to go to the server and find out that the person who pinged you had their messages removed and were banned for being a bot can be annoying. And yes, this is why we get the infamous "who pinged me" message in Discord. They literally cannot see/find who pinged them. Thus, this is quite a logical and easily predictable inquiry to be made.

I absolutely do hate it when people pings @everyone just to try to "revive" a chat, *especially* if this server has a dedicated role to be pinged when the chat is inactive

what REALLY makes me angry. Is when a server is *CLEARLY* being raided, and people have the AUDACITY to ask "wHo PinGeD mE??" Like bro, your spacial awareness is on point fr

Being pinged started off at annoying at first due to them being used for no reason. Though it got to the point where seeing a notification sign bugs me to the point that I have to check it or mute it because I can't just leave it sitting there. Having no notifications till I'm actually messaged by someone I'm talking to makes it easier for me to not lose my mind.

Some people only want to be pinged when it's something important to them (and stop everything they do to respond). Such users are understandably annoyed when being pinged.

4:37 for discord server owners, i really reccomend reaction roles as u can only ping people who want to be pinged for those stuff

I am on do not disturb basically 24/7 unless I'm waiting on something important. For me, the sound itself just, annoys the hell out of me. Especially on the rare chance I am waiting for something, and I get that ping noise that's absolutely pointless. It's terrible, but I never really thought about the legitimate reason, and what other peoples reasons might be. Great video!!!

The fact that someone might actually want to talk to me of their own free will brings me joy in these times.

The thing is it depends on the ping. If its from a friend then sure its good, discord users are attention whores after all. If its a random everyone ping on a 90000 member server tho (that you are still in it even tho u never check or need or can actively talk in because its too active to actually have a convo) you just get in a chat full of people wondering what the ping is and its usually not important so we get pissed at the pinger admin or whatever.

I feel like you guys are missing an extremely simple reason; you have to stop what you're doing to go see what they pinged you for. And people aren't mad at a stupid red circle or sound, there annoyed because they have to put everything aside. There's also the annoyance of it highlighting your discord icon, which if you have your taskbar to auto hide, it will pull it up.

For me it just brings up hope, no clue what im expecting but every time i get pinged i feel like something serious is gonna happen. It builds up false hope of something and it gets dismissed immediately

The ping sound used to give me major anxiety before I started using discord regularly for freelance work.

4:28 Pinging Everyone WILL NOT GET YOUR SERVER ACTIVE! It will A. Make people annoyed and leave or B. People will just end up ignoring the ping all together. So stop pinging a role constantly. Not just everyone.

ANSWER #5: They got anxiety because Discord shows a ‘1’ circle instead of the fulfilling circle with a white point in it

I would say, I don't get annoyed by pings but I always got my status on "busy" because I don't like the ping sound especially when I'm reading something, watching something or playing a game and breaks my immersion but the notification is something I don't care about as I can take a look at it whenever I want, if I get pinged by an everyone ping often without reason, I'm probably in a server that I don't wanna be in, what bothers me however is that friend requests appear on the task bar ( on pc ) is really annoying as I can't see when I get pinged as forementioned I'm not gonna turn on the sound for it. That's how I see it and go through it without annoyance, idk why this video only got recommended to me now but hey, we're here n chilling, good vod!

As someone who is been on discord for many years, it’s not the sound that annoys many. It’s simply the notification. When you get a notification you expect it’s someone who is actually wanting to engage with you so when you see it’s a random server that you don’t even care the contents of the message it gets you pretty annoyed (eg. staff getting a promotion on a server you don’t even engage in and in the server for the stickers). There’s no way you can actually stop getting the ping alert even if you mute the servers completely forever

This is why "Do Not Disturb" is a lifesaver, I personally don't really care if someone pings me or not, but I have it on 24/7 in case somebody decided to ping me at ungodly hours

Tip: create another role simply called "chat reviver" or "anouncement ping" to use instead of @everyone. These role can be given by hand or with a bot for reaction roles

I mostly stay to smaller discords, so luckily when I'm pinged it's either someone actually talking to me, or an announcement that applies to me, so it's usually pretty exciting to see a ping. It's interesting to see big discord goer's perspective.

Suppress @here and @everyone, job done, I really can't see it being much different to group chats on other services

Ways to avoid to hearing that sound or seeing the red circle with a number: - mute discord sound in volume mixer or disable the sound under settings - turn off the unread badge - do @here so online people will only get pinged while you are offline or invisible - discord disables the ping sound function and the circle with a number while you are on 'do not disturb'

Some issues not brought up: · Muting specific servers and channels doesn't work. · On the PC app, disabling the ping sound (labeled as "message") in the notification settings doesn't save once you close Discord in the app or log out. · You can hear that ping/message sound but not be given any extra red circles with numbers inside them, so you're left wondering what the hell it was. · said pings that have the red circle with the white number might appear in a # general or some other similar channel, so you gotta search for it to know whether or not it's actually important (and even if you look in your recent mentions, if you're in loads of servers you'll still struggle to find it.)

I hate pings for one reason alone: I have my taskbar hidden on my computer, but it's constantly brought up when someone pings me. It would be fine if it was for a few seconds and then it went away, but I have to open discord or press the windows button twice to see the bottom of my screen, which makes things like seeing my inventory, health, hunger, stamina, chat, and many other GUI features impossible. Which makes me have to stop whatever I'm doing for a good 3-7 seconds, which is fatal in any fighting, building, strategy (etc) game

I just wanted to say if you ghost ping people in your discord server especially if you're the owner of a fairly large server I'm such a huge fan I really admire your commitment to adding a little bit more choas onto this planet and you should keep up the good work P.s for those who don't know what a ghost ping is its where you ping someone and then delete it before anyone can see it

My reason for hating pings is that I’m a slight perfectionist and I like keeping my discord page clean despite the hundreds of servers I’m in

To be honest, I only get excited whenever it's a ping from someone I really want to talk to. Anyone else who pings, I get my hopes up, looking at my 2nd monitor and just gave out a face of disappointment thinking the person I want to talk to DM'd me when in reality it's only a server ping or a different friend who keeps annoying you.

I have an answer, and I really think it depends. It depends on where it is from and the relevance it has to the person. That sounds represents something important to you being said, and so I believe the annoyance doesn't start till after the person has removed focus from whatever they were doing; be it playing a game, watching a vid, or working in their favorite 3D modeling software; to check what it is. If it is a direct message from a friend then it intrinsically has to do with you, so rarely does that cause annoyance, unless it is a particularly annoying friend who feels the need to share everything. Then there are server pings, which there are role pings and server wide pings. Again, role pings typically have to do with you directly because whatever the ping is has to do with the reason you have that role, be it a responsibility you took on, or a particular interest in the group you have subscribed to, thus finding the ping to be that you aren't likely to be annoyed, though the odds are slightly higher than a DM. Then there is the server wide pings, which are an "@everyone" or "@here", and these have the highest chance of being not directly relevant to you. They are either a server wide announcement, which has a even odds of being of any importance to you, so decent chance of being annoyed; or it is a "troll", which will nearly always be a cause of annoyance. The only reason all of that has any chance of being an annoyance is that the sound represents something potentially important to you, and you have to draw your attention away from whatever you are doing to check on it. When you check on it and find it wasn't directly important to you is when you get annoyed cause you just spent the energy to lose focus for a moment to check it, and now you have to spend the energy needed again to refocus on what you were doing.

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Even chat revive pings can be server killing, which Is why I created time zone reaction roles so If you want to be pinged for chat revive you can without being woken up. Its annoying when most of a servers staff team Is in one time zone but when a servers staff and widely spread out across time zones this can be a good way to keep your server active without waking people up.

I love being pinged at the end of the hardest osu map to date

Been using discord on pc for over 3 years now, and after the first week I muted the tab and I only ever unmute it to hear videos people send. I'd rather get jumpscared than hear that ping when I'm really invested in something, cuz it's either gonna distract me for a good 15-20 mins if it's a convo I actually wanna engage in, or it's gonna be for legit the dumbest or dryest reasons. Mute the tab people, makes lives happier and easier

an interesting quandary I was posed a few years ago was "if you don't want to get pinged, then why are you in the server?" barring the useless pings, this is a great point. If I have stopped caring about updates for when a particular streamer goes live (or whatever the server's about), I'm not active in the discord, and I mute the entire server already, then why clutter my server list with it? The real worst pings are the ones that get covered up in public channels and you can't even find what the original ping was, you just see people bitching about it in an echo chamber. Or worser still are the deleted pings. You don't even get the satisfaction of mocking them for the dumb thing they pinged; it just turns into a noise to advert your attention to nothing and confusion

I hate being pinged because of a simple reason I have an issue where when I have a ping, I HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT for any reason. Which will be troublesome when you’re in 20 servers with most of them having 10+ channels and having to scroll back so far to find the ping

Discord should revamp the notification system. With the classic "red" ping for critical things, and other colors for just wanting to show something etc. Not what happens is that people mute a server, because they don't want to get pinged for small things, but then also miss the real announcements and in the end become a lurker or even forget about having joined that server.

the sound just strikes the "im pissed" nerves in my head. It like goes through all my mental tolerance barriers and just pisses me off.

I replied to a message answering a question and I got told they didn’t want to be pinged. I replied again saying sorry and got a modbot called on me. This was a relatively big server where they were active and when told they could just disable pings, they said “that defeats the purpose of joining discord servers” I just don’t get why you would join a server, ask a question, and get mad when someone pings you answering

ive used discord for the past 2 years and the 1 and 4 are the 2 ones i agree with the most, in general, the sound is annoying, but thanks to "do not disturb", it doesn't do it, but knowing someone wants your attention urgently and knowing its probably as insignificant as telling you they made pasta for dinner is very annoying

I'm only annoyed at pings when I dont know where they came from. I actually want to be pinged when someone replies to me cause I want to know when someone replies to me. so when there's a ghost or role ping, I am annoyed I cant find the message I was pinged from.

What I think is that it makes you stop what you're doing to check discord. When you have to do this multiple times, it starts getting annoying.

i hate those specific kinds of people that act super entitled and expect every single person to turn of reply pings for them, and specifically them. They could very easily just change a simple setting to make sure they only get pinged if someon actually directly @ts them, but no, its everyone ELSE that has to bow down to their demands. Ignoring the fact that everyone in a server wont be able to remember you (and anyone else not wanting to get reply pinged) out of everyone in that server, days or weeks or months later, especially since you could change your name & profile picture at any time

I am like “ping me if something important happens” and then they pinged me 15 minutes later saying “a dog jumped onto a car roof”

4:50 Thanks for the Quote OTD! Now I don’t have to…. ReSeaRcH

I hate any notifications, because they're a disruption to whatever my mind is trying to focus on which is just naturally infuriating for anyone. However even when they're not disruptive, the sound is associated with that stressful feeling so triggers the same reaction.

I've ping-muted most servers and disabled literally all discord notification sounds, including voice chat join/leave bleeps. I have become one with the silent abyss. I can't see or hear messages or mentions unless I specifically go to look - and it's beautiful. It is a kind of peace that cannot come without sacrifice - to disconnect without compromise. My friends often wonder why it takes me hours to reply to their messages when I'm literally sitting at my pc with the app open. They don't know what true peace feels like. I fear no ping, for I have become immune. The humble curtain of inbox-ignorance. True Zen.

If you want to ping a lot of people, add ping roles so people can choose what they get pinged for

As a discord user, i actually love getting pinged since I'm only in groupchats and servers with my friends. And my friends never chat so usually i would be the only one active. Although I can still say that pings are annoying, if they come from a public server.

Watching this video while having five separate Discord DM convos at the same time is the only way to experience this video.

my main reason for disliking some pings is that i use them as a way for people to get my attention if they need something or just wanna talk, so when someone in a server decides to ping everyone for something like saying hello it interrupts what I'm doing. I understand you're able to mute servers but then if someone does actually ping me for something i won't hear the sound and might miss it.

Honestly, in my opinion; I love getting pinged because usually it’s one of my friends pinging me for no reason, but that ping usually starts an interesting conversation, and I almost have no friends outside of discord so it’s kind of entertaining when I get pinged.

In some servers, you can choose what category of notification do you want to get pinged. I think this is the best way to solve the problem.

this gave me the idea that having a system on discord where you can limit how frequently a specific role can be pinged could be REALLY useful

I have never disliked being pinged and I've used Discord every day since 2017. In fact, I PREFER for people to ping me when they want to get my attention as I don't check all the servers I'm in constantly. I'm also not the type of person to have thousands of unread pings so whenever I wake up in the morning and have about 5 or more pings, I'll know to check my inbox and respond to them accordingly. That also seems to be something people don't know about, the inbox button. It'll literally show you all of your pings for you without you having to go look for them to see the reason you were pinged. Very useful for people who always ask, "Why was I pinged?" I always tell them, "Check your inbox!" and of course they don't know what that even is. Adding onto this, I've disabled the desktop notifications but left the notification icon and flashing taskbar enabled. Additionally I disable ALL Discord sounds. Outside of pings this includes calling sounds, hanging up sounds, call joining sounds, etc.

I grew tired of pings within a year of getting discord. I’m 14 and got discord sometime in the middle of 2021. I was pretty open to pings at first but found myself muting any public channel and announcement or other important channels I didn’t really care about with a couple months of downloading it, and tried to stop any way to receive that noise if possible. I only have 7-9 unmuted channels now out of a plethora of servers. As such, I can confirm that the discord ping is definitely a pain in my daily life. It’s just kind of aggravating.

I personally look forward to getting pinged, seeing as it means getting to talk about something interesting or playing halo with the squad.

it sends a chill down my spine hearing that sownd

I don't mind personal pings if someone actually wants something from me. What annoys me the most is when someone pings @everyone in public chat and when I come to read the ping message there are hundreds of new messages and I can't find it. It's even worse if it gets deleted. Deleting it desn't help with anything, notifications have already been sent. It's also annoying when some servers send notifications about something I'm not interested in and ping @everyone. There is a great solution to this - ping roles. You get a role that receives notifications on given topic, separate role for every topic.

Biggest problem with pings for me is that the moment I set my status to offline, it isn't silent at all. Instead of getting that *ping* noise whenever something pings me, it plays whenever a new message is sent in any of my servers. Because of that, everything will be silent until I go offline, where the ping noise is constantly playing (like 2:07).

I only have notifications for mentions (pings) and direct messages. I don't like being pinged since I believe it's a friend that's messaging me or something important that requires my presence or attention in a Discord server. This makes me drop everything that I'm doing and go look at the message that is followed by or included with the ping.

It's really simple for me. People don't really talk me, as I'll often go days or a week+ without speaking with anyone, and the excitement of thinking that someone actually wanted to send me a DM only for it to be shattered by seeing it was some mod saying @everyone Hi in their server is absolutely aggravating.

As a person who has discord notifications on my phone, and who has friends who live across the world. It is a pain being woken up early in the mornings. I'm tempted to turn them off but often times if I don't I end up missing something important.

My recommendations to the 4th answer is to create reaction roles for different kinds of pings so that way you only ping those who want to be pinged! It works on my server pretty well even though mine has less than 50 members

My issue with the ping is that when I get pinged I search for 5 minutes and for the life of me cannot find who or where the ping came from. I even go to the section where it shows the most recent pings and there's still nothing there.

Answer 1 is why I always mute general chats when I join servers because if I don't, I get that plethora of ping sounds you demonstrated and it never stops... As I result, I tend to be seen as inactive a lot of the time because I don't look at or talk in the general chat

i like the noise. its calming to me. thats why i listened to it for ten hours straight.

Just go into the settings, notifications and turn the ping sound off. You'll still see them on screen but without the sound...

I always turn ping notis off when I'm going off to sleep or when I can't be bothered but sometimes I forget and it gets annoying from time to time. (I don't want to turn off pings all of the time because I've got friends there who I want to keep in contact with after I moved from my home country)

In my experience I usually hate pings because it gives me the need to check why I am getting pinged at almost any time of the day. I don't know if its a friend pinging me or a random server pinging until I check. It is also hard to just mute the server because there might be a channel I want to hear from, so i go through every channel either setting my notifications settings to either, "all messages" or, "nothing".

It's like when you hear the default apple alarm clock sound and your back breaks out of shock as you start shivering and fall to the floor because you're so sick of hearing it

2:52 now that’s why I put do not disturb on

this man is underrated.

2:50 My Search and Rescue organization decided to use discord as our main hub for communication rather than Zoom or Google Meets. I enabled all notifications as well as sounds as required by our commanding officers. Since two captains and one lieutenant were nocturnal and decided to file paperwork during that time, they would pop onto discord and @ everyone or every squadron leader to remind them to fill our or distribute pamphlets, mission statements, briefings, and promotion reminders. One week when I left for sick leave, I had a total of 3,887 pings for my username and 1,000 @here pings. All of these within the span from 11pm-4am Monday through Saturday. It was such a lovely experience to be woken up from COVID and migraines to such persistent noises.

Some servers you don't want to mute the whole server but muting single channels STILL doesn't get rid of the red circle.

if you want pings to make your chat more active just make a deadchat ping and the few people that actullly want them get the pings instead of the majority that dont want them so you done lose members

Number 3 is absolutely one of the main reasons, I'm in a server where @everyone is used every day (it's literally said in the rules) and there was this one person who got annoyed at them constantly despite us CONSTANTLY SHOWING THEM A WAY TO SURPRESS THEM, actually this might've happened with multiple people. If you don't know, you can right click a server and go to notification settings to disable @everyone/@here pings. It's actually that simple. If this person was genuinely annoyed at these pings, they would've just taken our advice and there'd be no problem. And it's not like we only said it once, we said it at least 10 times

Right when u said “a discord ping at 0:48 i got a notification synced perfectly

I’ve interacted with so many people who would get so angry if you ping them when you reply to their message when you’re actively having a conversation with them in a busy channel. They’d throw a whole fit if you just forgot to turn off the ping when replying

Fun Fact: If you joined his discord (link in description) you could’ve seen a part of this video ;)

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I am ALWAYS happy when someone pinged me for something because i feel like i am needed! :)

having to go through your folders of servers to clear the little red ping notification from a server you joined 4 months ago and haven't used since then because of a ping you don't care about is the only one that pisses me off

Why Do Discord Usesrs HATE Being Pinged? death

There was one server where I would paint everyone for up his stuff, but that was only to notify people that the rules had been changed or added to and that they needed to go and react to the rules again in order to be able to talk at all, and I would keep that in a singular channel for the people really hated it they could just completely mute it (AKA an announcements specific channel)

I think what also is a reason for people with OCD (or non confirmed people who don't like the number there) cause its annoying seeing that ping there and it can also be that you are curious and you get pinged for nothing and then get annoyed cause you spent time on something that you didn't want to waste time on

As a general rule I turn every server I join to mentions only. I'm most often too busy working to be on all day, and I have to keep my phone in a locker for safety reasons (I work in an engineering shop, company policy). So the only way I know about notifications is through my smart watch, and I'd prefer not to have it constantly going off and wasting battery. Also, Discord has no option to modify it's notification ping, so it's the same tone for literally everything. Making it impossible to discern whether the ping is for a DM, or a server channel mention.

sometimes i hear the discord ping sound somewhere where i dont have any electronics but then when i check after i get home i see a notification

as a discord user for a few years i still dont understand why some people get so mad over pings personally when i get pinged im happy someone wants to talk instead of freaking out and screaming over it

A discord server I am in has a role called "randomer ping" this is a role given to people who demanded to have a special role and now have a role that can be pinged by anyone whenever they want

Whenever I get pinged, it's normally a @everyone ping, what I'm expecting is someone pinging me wanting to talk. So whenever that happens times 100, you start to get annoyed because out of all those pings, none of them refer to just you.