How to stop raids on your Discord server

In a raid, dozens or hundreds of accounts join within seconds and flood your channels with spam, slurs, links or mass mentions. The accounts are often bots or brand new alts, and the goal is to overwhelm your moderators before they can react.

The best defense has layers: keep new accounts from posting, catch suspicious accounts when they join, and lock the server on its own when a raid starts.

A verification gate keeps raid accounts in a single welcome channel until they pass a captcha. Bots that can't solve it never reach your channels.

Raid lockdown watches how fast members join. When the number of joins you set arrive within the seconds you set, Verifier locks the server, or only the lockdown channels you pick, and unlocks it when the time is up.

Raid lockdown is part of Premium Gold.

• Joins: how many members must join to count as a raid, from 3 to 100.
• Within seconds: how quickly they must join, from 5 to 300 seconds.
• Lock for: how long the lockdown lasts, from 5 minutes to 24 hours.
• Pause invites: also pause new invites while the lockdown lasts, for up to 24 hours. Verifier needs the Manage Server permission for this.

/lock all locks the whole server and /unlock all opens it again. Members can still read, but can't send messages or start threads. Verifier remembers exactly which permissions it changed and restores only those.

With Premium Silver, staff roles keep talking in locked channels and locks open on their own after a set time.

Raid accounts are often created minutes or days before the raid. The alt identifier catches accounts younger than an age you set, from 1 to 90 days, and can hold, time out, kick or ban them before they post.

Verifier's protections create Discord AutoMod rules, so Discord itself blocks the messages, even in the middle of a raid.

• Bad words: swear words in English, Turkish, Polish and Czech.
• Links: web links and Discord invites.
• Spam: messages Discord flags as spam.
• Mention spam: messages that mention more users and roles than the limit you set.

With Premium Diamond, freezing verification stops all new verifications for 30 minutes up to 7 days, or until you unfreeze it, so raid accounts can't get in while you clean up.

Every lock, raid lockdown, alt identifier catch and verification is recorded in the audit log and can be posted to a log channel, so you can see who joined and what Verifier did.