Automod: rules against invites, links, mentions and spam

Automod uses Discord’s own AutoMod. yurna creates the rules on your server and manages them for you. Because Discord enforces the rules itself, they apply instantly – before a message even shows up in the channel, and even if yurna is briefly offline.

There are five rules:

• Anti-Invite – blocks messages containing Discord server invites (e.g. discord.gg/… or discord.com/invite/…).
• Anti-Link – blocks messages containing links, server invites and other URLs.
• Anti-Mention – blocks messages with too many unique user or role mentions.
• Anti-Spam – turns on Discord’s spam detection.
• Anti-Badwords – uses Discord’s word lists for profanity, sexual content and slurs (currently via command only).

How to set it up#

1. Open Dashboard → Moderation → Automod (/dashboard/<server>/automod).
2. Turn a rule on with the switch at the top of its card. This takes effect immediately.
3. Under Exemptions, pick the roles and channels the rule should ignore.
4. Under Actions, choose what should happen. At least one action is required, otherwise you can’t save.
5. Click Save.

Anti-Badwords is still marked “Coming Soon” in the dashboard. Turn it on with /automod anti-bad-words enable in chat.

Settings#

• Ignored roles and Ignored channels – these roles and channels don’t trigger the rule. Members with Administrator or Manage Server permissions are always exempt.
• Delete message – the triggering message is blocked and never appears.
• Time out member – available for Anti-Invite, Anti-Link and Anti-Mention. In the dashboard you pick a duration between 1 minute and 1 week.
• Log to channel – Discord posts an alert in the selected channel for every hit.
• Mentions per message (Anti-Mention only) – 2, 5, 10 or 20 mentions in the dashboard; 1 to 50 via command (default 5). Discord’s mention raid protection is always on for this rule.

Commands#

With the command you can exempt one role and one channel (or a whole category); pick several in the dashboard. The timeout option sets the timeout duration in seconds (5–120).

Common problems#

• “There is already a spam rule” or a similar message: Discord allows only one spam rule, one word list rule and one mention rule per server. If another bot or someone manually already created such a rule, yurna won’t delete it but reports the conflict. Disable or delete the other rule under Discord → Server Settings → AutoMod.
• No more rules possible: Discord allows at most six keyword rules. Anti-Invite and Anti-Link use one each.
• Moderators aren’t blocked: That’s intended – anyone with Manage Server or Administrator is always exempt from AutoMod.
• The command reports missing permissions: yurna needs the “Manage Server” permission to create and edit AutoMod rules.

Automod is included in every plan without limits.

See also#

• Shield – raid, scam and new account protection, spam trap and lockdown
• Case files
• yurna’s permissions