What kind of gift card? They seem to accept some “promo code”, but if that’s coming from a gift card specific to this site, no one will be able to use that.

Where can I pay anonymously privately?

Looking at their other response maybe they just wanted to stir up shit, and there’s actually nothing

What is ESG in this context?

Always had a hard time with keeping my account or opening a new one, as they constantly demand you (or at least me, but I’ve read about a couple other users with the same experience) to hand over your phone number, which they will use for SMS based verification before you can log in.

It’s hard to find Voip numbers that work. If you try hard enough, they may even block your account irreversibly.

Maybe they are doing it to me because in my browser I block the web requests that are targeted at their tracking focused endpoint, which by the way was somewhat scummily renamed some time ago to “science”, so that popular inferior adblockers don’t block them.

Other than that, I’ve heard that r/discord is modded by their employees, who silence anyone (with deletion of post and blocking the user from the sub) who complains about these and similar things.