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 == Reason ==
-Although the original reason is now known, people from the community started theorising about it in relation to Discord's new username change (Pomelo). This change removed discriminators from usernames, making it impossible to have the same username as any other user. As the feature was slowly being rolled out to users, some users wanted to check if their usernames had been taken. To do this, they made an HTTP request to the Discord Pomelo endpoint.
+Although the real reason is not known, community members theorized that it was related to Discord's new usernames (Pomelo). This change removed discriminators from usernames, making all usernames globally unique. As the feature was slowly being rolled out, some users wanted to check if their usernames had been taken. To do this, they made an HTTP request to the Discord Pomelo endpoint. However, they likely failed to add all the necessary HTTP headers for that endpoint, which would've triggered antispam and flagged their account for suspicious behavior.
-The reason for this banning wave is believed to be users manually sending an HTTP request to the Pomelo endpoint with missing headers.
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