Meet Honeypot

What Honeypot does

Honeypot is a new module that catches hacked accounts and spam bots. You make a trap channel that nobody real has a reason to post in. Hacked accounts post the same scam in every channel they can see, so they post in the trap too.

When that happens, your bot DMs them how to secure their account, with a one-use invite back. Then it softbans them: a ban that deletes their messages from the last hour in every channel, followed by an unban, so the real owner can come back once the account is safe. Your log channel gets the catch, with buttons for staff.

Every setting is free

Everything here works on the free plan. Honeypot checks every message in your server, and none of it counts toward your free limits.

Set up Honeypot

1. Open Modules and click Honeypot, then switch it on and pick your server at the top right.
2. On the Traps tab, pick a trap channel, or press Create a trap channel for me.
3. On the Log tab, pick a Log channel, press Save Changes, then press Post or update the warning on the Traps tab.
4. In Discord, move your bot's role above your member roles.
5. Try it: post in the trap from an account that isn't staff.

What you can set

• Traps: up to 5 trap channels, the warning post, and trap roles.
• Action: softban, ban, kick, timeout, a role or only a log, how far back messages are deleted, the second sweep, and giving roles back.
• Message them: the DM, the invite back, and the sample staff get.
• Safety: who's skipped, the staff note, going easy on regulars, and the surge pause.
• Log: the log channel, its messages, and the count.
• Every message the bot sends can be changed.

Good to know

• Each server has its own trap channels, roles and log. Pick one in the server menu at the top right.
• Keep the trap visible and writable for everyone, near the top of the list. A hidden trap catches nothing. Give it a plain name, not "honeypot".
• Your bot's role has to be above the member's highest role. If it isn't, the catch fails and the log says why.
• The owner and anyone with Administrator, Manage Server, Manage Messages, Ban Members or Kick Members are skipped. When they post in the trap, the message is deleted and they get the sample DM, so that's how staff can test it.
• Each member is caught once a minute at most. Other bots and webhooks never count.
• Only Softban and Ban can delete messages in other channels. That's Discord's rule.
• The invite back goes out in the DM, so it's only sent while Message them first is on. Pick an Invite to channel on the Message them tab. Left empty, it opens the first trap channel.
• The softban is the Ban a Member block's new Unban straight away choice, so you can use it in your own commands too.
• On free bots, a small Made with BotGhost line shows under the messages about one time in three, never in the DM.
• The full guide is in the Honeypot docs.