Discord automod settings that actually reduce spam

Automod handles the repetitive part of moderation so people only step in when judgement is needed. The aim is fewer messages for moderators to clean up without punishing normal conversation.

The five rules most servers start with

• Anti Spam: repeated messages or rapid firing.
• Anti Caps: messages that are mostly capital letters.
• Anti Links: links to outside websites.
• Anti Invites: Discord invite links to other servers.
• Anti Mass Mention: @everyone, @here and long lists of mentions.

Choose the response for each rule

Each rule can delete the message, warn the member, mute, kick or ban. A sensible ladder looks like this:

• Caps and light spam: delete, or delete and warn.
• Links and invites: delete, and move to mute for repeated offences.
• Mass mentions: delete and mute, because they are almost never accidental.
• Reserve kick and ban for rules that only bad actors trip.

Avoid false positives

Start with the gentlest response and watch your log for a week. If real members keep being caught, loosen the rule or exempt the channel where that behaviour is normal, such as a memes channel. Tighten the response only after you trust the rule.

Test before you rely on it

The demo on the Korzax home page lets you type a message and see which rule would catch it. In the dashboard, the same rules are on the Automod page, described in the Automod documentation.

Automod is not a nuke shield

Message filters do nothing when someone deletes channels or bans members. For that you need anti-nuke protection and sensible permissions.