How to add and manage bots in Discord on your desktop or iOS and Android
Your personal virtual assistant for your server
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Quick steps
InDiscord, bots are friendly, free-to-use, artificial intelligence apps that you can add to help improve and enhance your server.
They can automatically welcome users, ban or kick out anyone who’s disruptive, send out alerts for when you’re streaming on Twitch, and even allow you to play games.You just need to pick one from a variety of popular bot websites and add them to your server. All the coding and the difficult process of creating them from scratch has already been done for you.With this in mind, we’ll be using MEE6 – one of the most popular Discord bots – as an example of how to set one up to welcome new users to servers, without you having to do any additional work.
Tools and requirements
Steps
How to use MEE6 as a Welcoming Bot in Discord
By selecting the “Welcome” tab, you’ll be presented with the option to pick which channel on your server the bot’s welcoming messages will appear, and how they’re displayed. To customize your welcome message further, you’ll require a paid premium membership of MEE6.
In the image below, we can see that the channel “general” has been selected. As such, when a new user joins the server, the bot will post the welcome message on that channel only.You can change the text or use the default wording for your welcome message. Scroll down for the option to have the bot send a private message to new users, to give a role to a new user, or post a leaving message if they make the decision to leave your server.You can return to this tab on your MEE6 dashboard at any time to make any changes.
How to use MEE6 as a Moderator Bot in Discord
How to remove a bot from your Discord
Steps
Final thoughts
There are a lot of bots to choose from, all of which can perform different tasks and enable a variety of functions on your server. You can find them from a myriad of different websites, but some popular choices are:
If you’re concerned about which bots to use, and aren’t confident about granting them permissions on your server, feel free to research further or ask other Discord users if a particular bot is right for you and your server’s needs.
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