Running a server

Moderation

The tools for keeping a server healthy: timeouts, kicks, bans, purging messages, voice moderation, member reports, pruning, and the audit log. Every one of them needs a permission, and you can only act on people whose highest role is below yours.

Where the tools are#

Right-click a member (their name in a message, the member list, or a voice channel). Moderators see extra actions below the usual ones. You only see the ones your permissions allow.

Timeouts#

A timeout stops someone sending messages and joining voice in this server until it ends. They can still read, and their DMs aren't affected. It's the right first step for most problems: it ends the situation without removing anyone.

Durations: 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours, 1 day, or 1 week. Choose Remove Timeout to end one early.

Kicking#

Remove from Server takes someone out of the server. They can come back with any working invite. Good for someone who needs to cool off, not for someone you never want back.

Their roles are removed along with them, so if they rejoin they start with none: a kicked moderator can't walk back in with their old permissions.

Banning#

Ban from Server removes someone and stops them rejoining, through any invite, until they're unbanned. Banned users can't be added back with Add Member either. See and lift bans in Server Settings → Bans. Their roles are removed too, so if they're unbanned and rejoin, they start with none.

Purging messages#

Deletes a member's most recent messages in the current channel in one go: right-click them, choose Purge Messages, and enter how many (up to 100 at a time). Other people's messages in between are skipped.

Voice moderation#

Right-click someone in a voice channel:

Server Mute / Server Deafen

Switches their microphone off (and, for deafen, their sound).

Move To

Moves them to another voice channel you can access.

Disconnect

Removes them from voice.

Everyone also has personal controls (volume, mute for just you, hide their video) on the same menu. See Voice and video.

Reports#

• Server Settings
• Reports

When someone reports a message or member in your server, the report comes here as well as to Sunflare's staff, so you can act on it without waiting. Each report moves through Open, Reviewing, and then Resolved or Dismissed.

Pruning inactive members#

• Server Settings
• Members

Removes members who haven't signed in to Sunflare for 7, 30, 60, 90, or 180 days, or a year. Click Check How Many first to see the number, then Prune.

• The owner and anyone holding any role are always skipped, so a moderator on a long break isn't swept up.
• Pruned members can rejoin with a normal invite.

The audit log#

• Server Settings
• Audit Log

The last 100 administrative actions in the server: who did what, to whom, and when. Recorded actions include:

• Members: kicks, bans, unbans, timeouts, role changes, prunes, and approved or denied join requests.
• Messages: purges, and every message AutoMod blocked (single message deletions aren't logged).
• Structure: channels and categories created, edited, deleted, locked, or given auto-delete; roles created, edited, or deleted; reaction roles.
• Settings: server settings, AutoMod, Welcome, and invites created, revoked, regenerated, or customized.

Other tools#

• AutoMod blocks words, links, and mention spam automatically.
• Raid protection pauses joins or filters new accounts.
• Slowmode and Lock Channel calm a busy or heated channel.