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Following the new guidelines

Find out how we are adapting ServerMate to the new guidelines

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Last updated 4 years ago

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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 and then navigate to message by clicking the

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

The !store command will be temporarily disabled until there are more items to offer (that do not break the guidelines)

Faster bumping & reduced cooldowns perks for bumping will be removed from premium users on the 7th of October

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

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