Discord AutoMod with enforcement or staff review

What it needs

• Report-only capture requires View Channel on the source and Message Content Intent. Staff need Manage Messages and access to each source channel to review its cases. Review commands are slash-only and replies are private.
• Optional notifications require a text channel hidden from @everyone, with View Channel and Send Messages for the bot. Choose a channel restricted to your staff. No bot punishment permissions are needed for report-only mode.
• Enforcement mode still needs Manage Messages and the permissions for configured actions: Manage Roles or Moderate Members for mute, Kick Members for kick, Ban Members for ban.

Setting it up

1. Enable AutoMod on your Pro bot, open Configure, and choose the server. Enable Report-only review and optionally select Staff review notifications. Save Settings. Report-only is off by default, preserving existing enforcement.
2. Enable the rule filters you need and set their thresholds, lists and exemptions. Saved punishment actions and escalation settings are ignored while report-only is on; AI analysis is also skipped.
3. Regenerate older bots to install the queue commands and persistence. Use /automod amreview action:list, then view, reviewed or dismiss with the case number.
4. For a saved Link Filter that has no Allow GIFs setting, GIF links stay subject to the filter until you turn on Allow GIFs. With it on, a message passes the Link Filter only when all of its links are Tenor, Giphy or Discord .gif sources.

Example

A member posts a word matched by an enabled Word Filter. In report-only mode the message stays in place, a pending case is saved, and an optional staff notification names the case number and rule. A moderator privately views and dismisses it; no punishment occurs.

Limits and troubleshooting

Limits

• Cases survive bot restarts in the generated bot database, with separate queues for each server. The first matching rule is saved; later edits or deletions do not update saved text. Attachments are not stored. No offline message backfill.
• At most 1,000 cases per server, including resolved cases. A full queue skips new reports. Cases expire 30 days after capture when the queue is next used; resolving a case does not free storage.
• List scans at most 50 entries and displays up to 10 accessible pending cases. Continue with the cursor in the response. Access is checked again before view or resolution; deleted, hidden or inaccessible source channels make cases unavailable.

If it doesn’t work

• No report: enable AutoMod and the relevant rule, turn on Report-only review, check exemptions and Message Content Intent. Repair source View Channel permissions.
• No notification: check the queue with /automod amreview. Choose a text channel hidden from @everyone and give the bot View Channel and Send Messages. Notifications are attempted once; failed delivery is not retried automatically.
• Queue warning: dashboard settings report missing permissions, storage/delivery failures or the storage limit after a report attempt. Check bot logs. No enforcement action is substituted for a failed report.