The suspected spam rule will block messages it suspects to be spam. You can learn how to enable it with the steps below.
1
Decide What Rule You Want To Create
First of all, you will have to decide what rule you want to create. You can do so here.
2
Enable the Rule
Then, you will need to enable the Block Suspected Spam rule, you can do so by toggling the toggle switch of the correct rule.
3
Configure Actions
After enabling the rule, you will be able to enable actions to take after a user broke the rule.
When rule is triggered
In this menu you can select what you want Discord to do when a message triggers this AutoMod rule. You can choose from:
Block Message, this will block the message from being send in your server.
Send Alert, this will flag the message for review by one of your moderators.
Timeout Members has been disabled for the suspected spam rule.
Alert Channel
In this menu you can select the channel where you want AutoMod actions to be logged. Make sure this is a moderator-only channel!
An example AutoMod log
4
Configure Exemptions
Now you can select channels, categorys and roles that you want the AutoMod rule to ignore. Users with these roles or in these channels can bypass this rule.
Both actions and exemptions can be configured as default settings. This way, they will be the same for all AutoMod rules in your server.
