Moderation

Moderation is the half of protection where a person decides. Its twin, Auto Moderation, is the half where the bot decides — and both file cases through the same engine, so a filter's action and a moderator's action look the same in a member's history.

1Setting it up

1. 1

   Switch it on

   Essentials → Moderation. The page has 8 tabs; General is where you start.

2. 2

   Name your moderator roles

   Who may use moderation commands. Separately, an admin tier can delete cases, run /role all and start a lockdown.

3. 3

   Set immunity

   Immunity is per punishment type, so a role can be warnable but not bannable. Immune members are refused before anything happens — no case, no DM, no log line.

4. 4

   Choose how a mute works

   Timeout (Discord's own, no setup, capped at 28 days per application — Arclo renews longer mutes automatically), a mute role you name, or both.

5. 5

   Point the logger at a channel

   On the Logging tab, or from Logging.

The eight tabs

Cases

Every action opens a numbered case. There are 22 types, covering members, channels and the server itself.

• Case numbers are allocated atomically, so two simultaneous bans can never share one.
• /case <number> opens a case; /modlogs <member> shows a member's whole history.
• Bans done through Discord's own interface are picked up from the audit log and filed as cases, so the history has no holes — and the punished member gets the same DM.
• Deleting a case removes it from the record. It does not undo what was done.

Punishments

The full order of operations — immunity, escalation, the case, the DM before the action, the expiry — is on Punishments. Per punishment, you can set:

Default duration

Used when a moderator gives no duration. Leaving a command's duration blank means use this; typing permanent means never expire.

DM the member

An editable message sent before the punishment lands.

Announce in the channel

An editable public message.

Immune roles

Per punishment.

Take their roles away

Strips a muted member's other roles and hands them back when the mute lifts. Works for every mute method, not only mute roles.

Roles on punish

Roles to add or remove when this punishment lands.

Internal reason

The template written into Discord's audit log, separate from the reason your members see.

Always review

Forces the moderator through a review form before it goes through.

#Direct Message

ArcloBOTToday at 14:32

You were muted in Nebula Collective

Duration

1 hour

Expires

in 1 hour

Reason

Message spam in #general

You can appeal this from the link below

Appeal

#mod-log

ArcloBOTToday at 14:32

Member banned

Member

throwaway_84

Moderator

@Mira

Duration

Permanent

Case

#1284

Reason

Raid participation

Mira · today at 03:11

Privacy

Per audience — the public announcement and the DM — you choose whether to include the moderator's name, the proof, the case number and the duration. Anything withheld renders as a stand-in (“a moderator”) rather than as a visible gap.

Escalation

A ladder counts a member's recent cases of a type and upgrades the punishment past a threshold — three warnings in seven days becomes a mute. Each rung names its own window, so “3 in 30 days” really means 30 days rather than the server-wide expiry.

Reports

/report lets your members bring something to staff. A report card lands in the channel you choose with buttons on it.

Where reports land

The channel. Set this first — a queue with nowhere to land never reaches anybody.

Who may report

Allow and block lists, roles that cannot be reported at all, and account-age and time-in-server gates.

What a report must say

Template reasons offered by autocomplete, a minimum length, and optionally a required attachment.

Card actions

Which punishments the card's buttons offer — warn, mute, kick, ban, and clearing the member's recent messages. All are on by default.

When Arclo acts on its own

X reports about one member within Y days → do Z. Dismissed reports never count, and one report can only advance the ladder one rung.

Auto-close

Reports nobody touched are closed after a while.

The automatic actions are nine: warn, mute, kick, ban, softban, add a role, remove a role, DM the member, or simply notify staff. The last three deliberately file no case — a server that wants “three reports and they lose the posting role, and hear why” should not have to reach for a ban to say it.

Appeals

A banned member is not in your server: no command, no channel and no DM thread reaches them. So appeals live on a public page at /appeal/<your-server>, which they can open from the ban DM.

1. 1The member fills in the form on the web page. The appeal gets its own number.
2. 2Arclo posts a card into your staff channel with accept and reject buttons.
3. 3Staff decide — in Discord, or from the Appeals tab on the dashboard. Either way the member is told, the punishment is lifted if you accepted, and it is logged.

Lockdown

Locks a channel, a list of channels, or the whole server, with a notice posted in each and an optional automatic end.

Clearing messages

/clear deletes messages with fourteen filters as subcommands — any, from a member, bots, humans, containing text, with links, with attachments, embeds, before or after a message, and more.

Commands

Twenty-six slash commands, kept flat on purpose — /ban, /kick, /mute and /warn are muscle memory from every other bot — plus three user context commands and one message context command.