Guide/Reference/Glossary

Glossary — Discord Bot Guide

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Term	Meaning
`Anti-nuke`	Protection against server destruction: mass deletes, bans, role and permission abuse. Distinct from AutoMod, which is about messages.
`Strict mode`	antinuke.strictPrivileged: anyone not whitelisted or covered by a permission grant is banned on their first destructive action.
`Permission grant`	A per-role list of specific destructive actions a role may perform, with one shared budget (N actions per window). Configured with !antinuke permrole.
`Whitelist`	Per-protection exemptions (antinuke, antiraid, automod, joingate…). A whitelisted actor is never punished by that protection and, for anti-nuke, never restored against.
`Permission key`	A bot-level permission such as security.ban that lets a role use a feature without the Discord permission, and gates dashboard access.
`Case`	One numbered moderation record (ban #12, timeout #13). Native Discord actions are attributed from the audit log and get cases too.
`Incident`	A correlated group of events (a raid, a nuke attempt) with a timeline of what was done. Auto-resolved after six quiet hours.
`Escalation`	A server-wide alert level (normal → elevated → high → maximum) that tightens thresholds for 30 minutes after threats.
`Panic mode`	Lock everything, block joins, snapshot the server, page staff. Manual (!panic) or automatic (heat panic).
`Heat`	A per-member score that risky behaviour adds to and time decays; the heat ladder maps scores to actions.
`Strike`	A count of past punishments that makes the next timeout longer.
`Cohort`	A group of joins that look alike (naming formula, account ages, avatars) judged together, regardless of arrival speed.
`Surge`	A cohort verdict of "real people arriving together"; suppresses the raid rate response for an hour.
`Quarantine`	Roles stripped and a no-permission role applied; the member stays but sees nothing except an optional quarantine channel.
`Lockdown`	Send Messages / Connect denied for the member roles on a set of channels; staff keep access; reversible.
`Damage report`	The post-incident count of destructive audit entries by an attacker, split before / after the ban timestamp, plus objects restored.
`Restore`	Anti-nuke re-creating a deleted channel or role from its in-memory snapshot, or a backup being applied.
`Edge blocking`	Discord AutoMod rules that block a message before it is delivered, provisioned from your settings with !security automod sync.
`Feature config`	A per-server JSON document behind a feature (leveling, join DM, tickets…). Every one is editable on the dashboard.
`Entitlement / plan limit`	Premium status and the caps it sets (embeds, autoresponders, feeds…). Admins may lower caps, never raise them above the plan.

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