Join Raids

Massive amounts of bots joining the server at the same time.

Threat Description

Large numbers of bots attempt to join the server in rapid succession. A smaller engaged community is more pleasant than a large on populated with bots, that:

• Disrupt chat with spam, advertising, abusive messages

• Spam DM users with advertising and/or links to scam mints/sales

• Burden, distract and staff and members/stunting human engagement and healthy discussions

Prevention

Beemo requires very little permissions, and only access to Join Gate + logs to operate making it a great free resource for auto-ban/raid prevention. However Beemo's banpool is limited and we therefore recommend another 1-2 bots assisting, such as Wick with it's Join Raid Prevention and Hashbot with Multi-Join State.

Outside of Raids, the Server should have a strong Join Gate (preferably Captcha and for less friction/issues avoid Captcha bots that require DMs or sending users to external websites). More information on bots can be found in Choosing Bots.

How to Respond to Active Attack

If Wick, Hashbot, Beemo and/or any other tooling was not active or didn't catch the massive army of bots there could be a long day of manually clicking and removing them. Hashbot's auto-ban/filter list is a nifty tool if the bots happen to have similar names and pictures and one can add that name/pfp to the filter list and cleanup that way.