Trust and strikes
A trust score and strikes for members who keep breaking the rules
A regular who posts one wrong picture and an account that floods your channels should not get the same answer. The trust system keeps a score per member so the response grows with the behaviour.
How the score works
Everyone starts at 100
Each member has a trust score in your server. A new member starts with full trust.
Violations cost trust
Each kind of violation belongs to a severity tier: low, medium, high or critical. You set how much trust each tier costs. A scam link is critical, spam is low.
No trust left means a strike
When a member's trust is used up they receive a strike, and the action you configured for that strike number applies: a warning, a timeout, a kick or a ban.
Trust comes back
Trust regenerates over time at a rate you choose, so an old mistake fades. Premium servers can also let strikes expire after a period without violations.
What counts as a violation
Every module reports to the same score. You decide per violation type whether it counts.
Removed media
Images removed by nudity detection or by your block list. The AI violation is off until you enable it, so you can watch the model first.
Spam and invites
Each spam check and the invite filter.
Blocked links
Porn and scam domains, at high and critical severity.
AutoMod blocks
Messages stopped by the AutoMod rules the bot manages.
Manual deductions
A moderator can deduct trust or add a strike by hand, with a reason.
Reversing a wrong decision
Moderators can open a member's history, undo a single violation with a reason, set or reset trust and remove strikes. When a violation is undone, the score is calculated again as if it had never happened, and a punishment that no longer stands is lifted.
Members can check their own standing with /standing: their score, their strikes and what the next consequence would be. If one of their images was removed by mistake they can report it from there.
How members are told
SfwBot sends a direct message only to members who opted in with /dms. Everyone else gets a short notice in the channel that deletes itself after a few seconds. You can switch that notice off.
Switching it on
The trust system is off until you enable it. A new server starts with timeouts for the first three strikes; free servers can define three strike actions and premium servers ten. See the trust and strikes guide.
Questions and answers
Is a member banned automatically?
Only if you configure a ban as a strike action. The actions a new server starts with are timeouts.
Is the trust score shared between servers?
No. Each server keeps its own score for each member.
Can a moderator reverse a strike?
Yes. Moderators can remove strikes, undo violations and reset a member's trust, in the dashboard or with the /member command.