You don’t hear about Skype too often do you? Are from Discord Launched 4 years ago, it has grown in popularity as one of the leading text and voice chat platforms on the web on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It’s geared towards gamers, but Discord servers exist for all sorts of interests.
One significant advantage Discord holds over Skype is the ability to create a community-powered server, complete with text and voice functionality. This is a step above group chats, which both Skype and Discord support and has allowed websites, groups of friends, and streaming communities to connect in meaningful ways.
However, with great power comes great responsibility. Servers large and small need to be moderated, especially if they are public. Fortunately, Discord offers a powerful API that has spawned thousands of public bots. In May, Online Tech Tips covered setting up a Discord music bot – one of the most popular types of bots.
In this article, let’s take a look at three of the best and most trusted public bots to censor and control your Discord server.
Tatsumaki
Tatsumaki is a recognized name for two reasons. It’s the name of a character from the One-Punch Man anime, and it’s also a feature-rich Discord bot.
Tatsumaki’s most famous function is its record system. Enabling Tatsumaki in your Discord server allows your server members to receive experience (XP) and credits from chatting in text channels and using certain commands.
With XP, your server members compete for the top server tier. With credits, users can purchase badges, wallpapers and other widgets to further boost their profile.
However, Tatsumaki is often overlooked because of how effective an all-purpose moderation bot is. Tatsumaki provides text-based commands to kick and ban users from the server, as well as blacklist users from using bots.
You can also disable commands completely or in specific channels. By Tatsumaki t @ trimmed is one of the most useful commands, allowing the user permission to delete a specific number of messages based on the user, the text found in the message, the type of user who sent the message, and more.
Finally, Tatsumaki’s t @ notice command enables a powerful, automated feature that generates public logs for your server. By using it you can enable or disable notifications on each channel, when a user joins/leaves a server or voice channel, changes their nickname or gets banned or kicked.
Check Tatsumaki’s command list here. Click here to invite Tatsumaki to your server.
MEE6
Like Tatsumaki, MEE6 has its own level system – a big draw for bots of this type. However, it has some very unique features of its own.
The first is the ability to create custom commands through MEE6’s web console. For example, you can create a condition so that if the user enters ! gimme command, bots give them a specific role.
MEE6 also has welcome messages and automatic role assignment. Many Discord servers will automatically assign roles to new users, either for certain permissions or change their name color from the default color (white). MEE6 fully supports this.
MEE6’s moderation features support temporary kick, ban, mute, and mute commands. However, one of the main reasons people love this bot is because of its automated moderation system.
MEE6 includes a system that violates users and through which bots can issue penalties on their own. For example, you can set it so that users who reach three violations will automatically be muted. After five violations, you can ban them from the server for a day. Speaking of which, timed bans are another big feature that MEE6 supports.
Definitely consider MEE6 if you’re setting up a large moderation team. These automated actions help create safe and consistent moderation guidelines. Although there is no complete list of commands on its website, you can join MEE6’s support server here.
Dyno
Dyno is a fully customizable server moderation bot that specializes in automation. While bots like Tatsumaki and MEE6 put a lot of development into custom systems around leveling up and encouraging chat, Dyno is all about server management.
With Dyno, you can do everything via text commands: set up moderators, make announcements, manage roles (manually or through an automatic rating system), change nicknames , delete users or messages, kick, ban, mute, deaf, softban, warnings and more.
Dyno also supports playing music in voice channels, along with some playful commands that allow for random quotes, jokes, and cute pictures of dogs, but it’s primarily designed for server owners. want full control. This bot will have everything you need when it comes to moderation, role assignment, and custom commands.
Check out Dyno’s command list here. Dyno can be invited to your server by logging into its web control panel.
Based on List of Discord Bots, these three bots can be found in millions of Discord servers. They are three of the most popular bots on the entire platform, so their security and stability far outweigh the alternatives. Knowing that, you can trust each of these bots with high-level permissions.
