How to protect your Discord server from raids

Before a raid: Discord's settings

• Verification level (Server Settings → Safety Setup): 'Medium' (registered for 5 minutes) or 'High' (member for 10 minutes) stops brand-new accounts from talking straight away.
• Turn off @everyone and @here for normal members in each channel's permissions.
• Turn on Discord's AutoMod spam and mention-spam filters.
• Use invite links that expire, and remove old permanent invites.

Automatic raid detection

Raids happen while you're asleep, so it helps to have something watching. With Wisp's Anti-raid:

1. Choose how many joins in how many seconds counts as a raid (10 in 10 seconds is a good start for most servers).
2. Pick what happens: alert your mods, alert and lock every channel, or alert and kick everyone who joined in the flood.
3. Optionally kick accounts younger than a few days as they join.
4. Pick a private alert channel for your mods.

During a raid

• Lock the server: /lockdown start stops everyone talking in every channel at once.
• Delete the spam: /purge can delete up to 100 recent messages, or only messages from one person.
• Ban the raid accounts, and check your invites to see which one they used.

After a raid

• /lockdown end unlocks exactly the channels that were locked, and leaves your private channels as they were.
• Tell your members what happened and that it's sorted.
• Raise your verification level for a few days, as raiders often come back.