Catch spam bots with a honeypot
A channel nobody should post in, so a bot sweeping every channel gives itself away.
A honeypot is a bait channel your members are told never to write in. Spam bots and hacked accounts post in every channel they can see, so the first message in the bait channel gives them away, and Tickety acts on that account.
Make a new, empty channel for it. Tickety posts a warning notice in it, so real members know to stay out.
Open Honeypot
Open your dashboard and pick your server. In the sidebar, under Server, click Honeypot.
Pick the bait channel and turn it on
Go to Bait Channels.
- Open Bait Channels and pick the channel.
- Turn on Honeypot Enabled. It needs a bait channel first.
Decide what happens to them
Under What Happens, pick one in What Happens to Them:
- Nothing: log it and count it, but leave the account alone.
- Timeout: mute the account for a while. It keeps its roles.
- Kick: remove the account. It can rejoin.
- Softban: remove the account and wipe its recent messages. It can rejoin. This is the default.
- Ban: wipe its recent messages and keep it out for good.
Delete Their Message, further down, is on to start with.
Keep your staff safe
Under Who Is Exempt, Exempt Administrators and Exempt Admin Role are on to start with. Add more roles in Exempt Roles. An exempt member who posts is still logged, but nothing is done to their account.
Save
Press Save Changes in the bar at the bottom of the page. Tickety posts the warning notice in the bait channel:
Tickety needs a role above the account it acts on, plus the permission for the action: Moderate Members for Timeout, Kick Members for Kick, and Ban Members for Softban and Ban.
More options
The rest of the page fine tunes the trap. All of it is optional.
- Time Them Out First mutes the account a moment before a kick, softban or ban, so it is still muted if it rejoins. Timeout Length sets how long, from 1 minute to 28 days.
- Messages To Wipe decides how much of the account's recent messages a softban or ban removes, from Keep them all to 7 days.
- Wait Before Acting 👑 holds the action for up to 5 minutes. Audit Log Reason is the reason Discord's audit log shows.
- Under Camouflage, Keep the Channel Active posts and deletes a silent message once a day, and Rename the Channel Daily gives the channel an ordinary name every day. Renaming needs Manage Channels. Both are off to start with.
- Post the Warning keeps the notice in the bait channel. Counter Button 👑 and Hide What Is a Honeypot 👑 change what that notice shows.
- Send a Direct Message tells the caught account what happened. Offer a Way Back In adds a rejoin button to that message, for hacked accounts that get cleaned up.
- Add Them to the Blacklist 👑 also blocks the account from the Tickety features you pick in Blocked From, for as long as For How Long says. Quote the Message 👑 puts the offending message in the log.
Turning the honeypot off keeps your channels and counts, and takes the notices down.
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