Replacing TeamSpeak, Discord has become a constant for most gamers, streamers and content creators to communicate during games or connect to their online communities. So, referring to the expansion of the Discord community, the company is taking some significant steps to improve the user experience. That's why Discord has now announced a new AutoMod tool that can automatically detect and block certain offensive words or phrases on a server.
How to Set Discord Automod – Discord Server Moderation
Discord recently took to an official blog post to announce its latest AutoMod tool. This feature is located in the Server Settings menu, under Content Moderation, on desktop computers and allows server moderators with "Manage Server" privileges to configure the tool to detect and block offensive or offensive words or phrases on their servers.
Along with the blog post, Discord shared a quirky anime-style video detailing the features and functionality of the new AutoMod tool. You can check it out attached below.
Now getting to the technicalities, Discord says that AutoMod works by scanning a server's written conversations, whether in a thread, #text channel, or in a server's text chat in the voice channel, to detect words or phrases that have been blocked by a moderator. However, for the tool to work, server moderators must configure it and add the keywords or phrases they want AutoMod to detect and block.
