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Manager

On by default

Commands for managers: purge messages with filters, add or remove roles for many members at once, create and edit roles, add emoji and make announcements.

Set it up

  1. Open the dashboard and pick your server. Sign in with Discord if you haven’t.

  2. Find Manager in the sidebar. It’s already on in new servers.

  3. Go through the settings below. Simple mode shows the essentials; switch to Advanced for the rest.

  4. Try it in Discord: /addemote. Staff can restrict or turn off each command in Commands.

Tips

  • Mass role changes run in the background. Check them with `/role status`.
  • Purge only reaches messages from the last 14 days; that limit is Discord’s.

Settings

What you’ll find on the Manager page of the dashboard. Settings marked Advanced only show in Advanced mode.

Purge

Defaults for purge. Purge never touches messages older than 14 days.

Keep pinned messages
On/offPurge skips pinned messages unless you include them in the command.
Default purge size
NumberMessages deleted when no count is given. Up to 1000.
Remove the purge summary afterAdvanced
NumberSeconds before the "Deleted 42 messages" notice disappears (prefix commands). 0 keeps it.

Mass role changes

role all, humans, bots and in run in the background, one at a time per server.

Post a summary when a mass role change finishes
On/offPosted in the channel where the change was started.

Announcements

Default announcement channel
ChannelUsed when announce is run without a channel.
Send announcements as an embedAdvanced
On/off

Commands

/addemote

Managers

Add a custom emoji from a link, an image or another emoji

/addemote [source] [name] [image]?addemote <link|emoji> [name]
Options
source (optional)
Image link or custom emoji to copy (or attach an image)
name (optional)
Emoji name (2-32 letters, numbers or _)
image (optional)
Image to upload (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP)

Also: ?addemoji

/addmod

Managers

Make a role a Kovu moderator role

/addmod <role>?addmod <role>
Options
role
Role that can use moderator commands

/addrole

Managers

Create a role

/addrole <name> [color] [hoist] [mentionable]?addrole <name> [color] [hoist]
Options
name
Role name
color (optional)
Colour, like #1d9e75
hoist (optional)
Show members separately in the list
mentionable (optional)
Let everyone @mention it

/announce

Managers

Post an announcement, optionally pinging a role

/announce <message> [channel] [role] [everyone] [embed] [title] [here]?announce [everyone|here|role @role] [#channel] <message> [--embed] [--title=…]
Options
message
What to announce
channel (optional)
Where to post it (default: the announcement channel in settings)
role (optional)
Role to ping
everyone (optional)
Ping @everyone
embed (optional)
Send as an embed
title (optional)
Embed title
here (optional)
Ping @here

/delmod

Managers

Remove a role from the Kovu moderator roles

/delmod <role>?delmod <role>
Options
role
Moderator role to remove

/delrole

Managers

Delete a role

/delrole <role>?delrole <role>
Options
role
Role to delete

/ignorechannel

Managers

Make Kovu ignore commands in a channel, or stop ignoring it

/ignorechannel [channel]?ignorechannel [#channel]
Options
channel (optional)
Channel (default: this one)

/ignorerole

Managers

Make Kovu ignore members with a role, or stop ignoring it

/ignorerole <role>?ignorerole <role>
Options
role
Role

/ignoreuser

Managers

Make Kovu ignore a member, or stop ignoring them

/ignoreuser <user>?ignoreuser <user>
Options
user
Member

/listmods

Moderators

List the moderator and manager roles

/listmods?listmods

/mentionable

Managers

Let everyone @mention a role, or stop it

/mentionable <role> [enabled]?mentionable <role> [on|off]
Options
role
Role
enabled (optional)
On or off (leave empty to toggle)

/nick

Managers

Change Kovu's nickname in this server

/nick [nickname]?nick [nickname]
Options
nickname (optional)
New nickname (leave empty to reset)

/purge

Moderators

Delete recent messages, optionally filtered

/purge [count] [filter] [text] [user] [message] [include_pinned]?purge [filter] [user|text|message id] [count] [--include-pinned]
Options
count (optional)
Messages to delete (up to 1000)
filter (optional)
Only delete messages that match (default: any)
text (optional)
Text for match, not, startswith and endswith
user (optional)
Only messages from this member
message (optional)
For "after": delete messages after this message (ID or link)
include_pinned (optional)
Also delete pinned messages

/role

Managers

Give or take roles from one member or many

/role add <member> <role>/role remove <member> <role>/role toggle <member> <role>/role removeall <member>/role all <role> [action]/role humans <role> [action]/role bots <role> [action]/role in <in_role> <role> [action]/role status/role cancel?role
Options
add member
Member to change
add role
Role
remove member
Member to change
remove role
Role
toggle member
Member to change
toggle role
Role
removeall member
Member to change
all role
Role
all action (optional)
Add or remove the role (default: add)
humans role
Role
humans action (optional)
Add or remove the role (default: add)
bots role
Role
bots action (optional)
Add or remove the role (default: add)
in in_role
Members with this role are changed
in role
Role
in action (optional)
Add or remove the role (default: add)

/rolecolor

Managers

Change a role's colour

/rolecolor <role> <color>?rolecolor <role> <color>
Options
role
Role
color
Colour like #1d9e75, or "none" to remove it

Also: ?rolecolour

/rolename

Managers

Rename a role

/rolename <role> <name>?rolename <role> <new name>
Options
role
Role
name
New name

/setnick

Managers

Change a member's nickname

/setnick <member> [nickname]?setnick <member> [nickname]
Options
member
Member to rename
nickname (optional)
New nickname (leave empty to reset)

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