A Discord moderator bot, designed to be used with the Stardew Valley server

Written by aquova, et. al, 2018-2023

https://github.com/aquova/bouncer

https://discord.gg/stardewvalley

This bot was originally written to assist with moderation on the SDV Discord server, but it can be easily used on any server that requires more advanced moderation logging.

My personal hosting of the bot will be private, but users are free to host a version of the bot themselves. Over time, the bot has become more and more specific to the SDV server, so this repo is here more as an example rather than a resource to be directly used by others.

The bot has several moderation features:

• Logging of user warnings
  • Moderators can log user warnings alongside an explanitory message.
  • Warnings are saved both in a Discord channel specified in config.json, as well as saved to a local database.
  • In addition to warnings; bans, kicks, and unbannings can all be noted.
• Storing moderation notes
  • Notes about users are stored privately, for moderators to review later
• User searching
  • The database can be searched by user ID, username or by 'ping'. The bot will then post any noted infractions, as well as their timestamp and stored message
• Removal
  • Everybody makes mistakes. Individual user logs can be specified and deleted.
• DM forwarding
  • Private messages sent to the bot will be automatically forwarded to the channel specified in config.json.
  • Moderators can also DM a user via the bot, allowing for collaborative viewing of direct messages.
  • DMs from unruly users can be blocked and unblocked as desired.
• Answering Machine
  • A list of unreplied users users can be viewed, to avoid accidentally overlooking a message.
  • The list is automatically pruned after the message gets too old, or if they are replied to.
• User DMing
  • Upon being banned or warned, there is the option to DM a user with the message. This can be disabled in the config.json file.
• Statistics visualization
  • Statistics about moderator activity can be generated, namely how many warns/bans occurred each month, and how many total warns/bans have been created by each moderator.
• System logs
  • The bot will also monitor all channels and post server-wide changes in users.
  • These include nickname changes, joining, leaving, kicked, banned, joining/leaving VC, and logging of all deleted and modified messages.
• Debugging
  • A bot instance can be specified as a debugging instance.
  • Non-debugging instances will ignore owner commands when debugging enabled, allowing development work while other instances remain live in the server.
• Watchlist
  • Possibly problematic users can be added to a 'watchlist', where all their messages are posted for easy viewing.
  • Makes it easy to quickly see if a possibly troll is continuing to post, rather than relying on Discord search.

There is also a $help command, which will give the syntax for all of the previously listed commands

For better security, the bot only listens in specific channels for commands, and only accepts commands for users with specific roles. These can be specified, along with other parameters, in the config.json file, which is not included for obvious security reasons.