Server settings

Moderation & bots

Bot role assignments and the auto-moderator's timeout escalation.

Admin onlyApplies instantly

Bot roles

Bot accounts (created in admin → Users) can hold server roles:

defaultBotId

The server’s general-purpose bot identity.

welcomeBotId

Posts localized greetings in communities’ welcome channels.

autoModeratorBotId

Issues the automatic timeouts below.

Note

Unassigned roles fall back to the default bot; with no bots configured the related features quietly do nothing.

Auto-timeouts

With an auto-moderator assigned, repeated moderation hits trigger automatic timeouts:

  1. Count hits

    autoTimeoutHits infractions within autoTimeoutWindowSeconds trigger a timeout.

  2. Apply the timeout

    First one lasts autoTimeoutDurationSeconds.

  3. Escalate

    With autoTimeoutProgressive, each subsequent timeout grows up to autoTimeoutMaxSeconds.

  4. Reset

    A quiet stretch of autoTimeoutResetSeconds starts the counter over.

See Moderation for the human side of the ladder.

Anti-spam registration check

This tab also carries an Anti-spam registration check section — an opt-in, off-by-default screen of new registrations against StopForumSpam. See Anti-spam for the full guide, including the six settings and the GDPR wording to add to your privacy policy.