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Newt checks each person the moment they join. Anyone a filter catches is dealt with before they can post. Unless the filter only logs them, they aren’t welcomed or counted as a join.

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Set it up

1

Open the Join gate tab

On the dashboard, pick your server and open Join gate.
2

Switch on the filters you want

Each one has its own action.
3

Turn it on

Tick Use the join gate at the top, then save.

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The filters

Each filter can only log it (a note in the mod log channel), time them out, restrict them, kick them or ban them. Bots can be kicked or banned. A timeout lasts a day unless you pick another length, from 10 minutes to 28 days.
  • Strict words match whole words: nitro catches “free nitro” but not “nitrogen”.
  • Wildcard words match anywhere, spaces and dots ignored: nitro catches “xXnitroXx”.
  • Fancy fonts and look-alike letters are turned into plain ones first.
  • Up to 100 words. Tick Also check when someone changes their name later to catch renames.

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Raid protection

A sudden burst of joins turns on raid mode. Newt then deals with everyone who set it off and every new arrival until it ends.
  • A raid is 10 joins within 60 seconds by default. Set 3 to 100 joins, within 10 to 600 seconds.
  • Newt deals with likely raiders or everyone who joins: timeout, restrict, kick (the default) or ban.
  • Likely raiders are under a week old, have no avatar, share a name with two others apart from the numbers, or were made within 10 minutes of two others.
  • Raid mode lasts 10 minutes after the last raider (1 to 120), then posts a summary.
  • Pause invites during a raid is on by default. Lock the whole server down too is off.
  • Alerts go to the mod log channel, or to the owner by DM if there isn’t one. They can ping up to 5 roles.

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Ping raids

Tick Lock every channel when lots of pings arrive at once. By default that’s 50 mentions within 30 seconds across the server (10 to 500, within 5 to 120 seconds). Channels unlock by themselves when raid mode would end, or sooner with /unlock all.

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Commands

Sets the account age filter in days, from 1 to 365. days:0 switches it off.

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Good to know

  • The owner and trusted admins can always add bots.
  • The bot filters need View Audit Log, to see who added a bot.
  • Newt tells people why in a DM before acting. Untick it on the tab to stay quiet.
  • Staff, the owner and trusted admins are never caught by changing their name.
  • During a /lock server, everyone who joins is turned away.
  • Filters are checked in this order: account age, advertising names, username, no avatar, suspicious.
Permission: Manage Server, on the dashboard and for /automod minage