# Following the new guidelines Due to the rising trend of Join-For-Join (J4J) Discord bots (which have a reputation for spawning toxic communities), the verification team at Discord made a statement on the 29th of September informing us that any form of advertisement bot was at risk of unverification. After speaking to the staff, we have come to a compromise that lets Discord purge these "J4J" bots, whilst keeping other advertisement bots mostly clear of consequence, although there are some new guidelines that these bots must follow. We have condensed them here, but if you would like to read the full statement from Discord, join the Discord Developers server [here](https://discord.gg/discord-developers) and then navigate to [this](https://discordapp.com/channels/613425648685547541/697236247739105340/760937386577625129) message by clicking the [link](https://discordapp.com/channels/613425648685547541/697236247739105340/760937386577625129) ## The basic guidelines Advertisement bots **may not** offer paid promotion/bump boosting (eg. Autobump, shorter cooldowns for premium users, etc.) Advertisement bots **may not** offer a currency that allows servers to advertise their servers (or make the process faster) Advertisement bots **may** offer aesthetic changes to advertisements to users who pay/are premium Bots **should not** have an "obscured payment functionality" (Premium options **should** be made obvious to users) ## What are we doing to meet these guidelines? After speaking to a Discord representative and given the go-ahead, we will be making the following 3-step-plan: The "bump now" store item will be removed from the `!store` on the day of submission :white\_check\_mark: The `!store` command will be temporarily disabled until there are more items to offer (that do not break the guidelines) :white\_check\_mark: Faster bumping & reduced cooldowns perks for bumping will be removed from premium users on the 7th of October :white\_check\_mark: Autobump has never been a feature of ServerMate, but I thought that I would just mention that we have no plans to add this feature to premium users --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://devlinbots.gitbook.io/servermate/original/adapting.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.