Honeypot

A trap channel nobody has a reason to post in · anyone who does gets punished on the spot.

A honeypot channel looks ordinary and is mentioned nowhere. Real members have no reason to post there; bots and selfbots that scrape a server find it and trip it. Criminal deletes the message and applies your chosen punishment immediately.

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Arm a trap

/honeypot edit

The panel sets the punishment, the channel, exempt roles and both messages. Everything is also available under the prefix as ,honeypot edit or ,honey edit.

Command	Purpose
/honeypot edit	Configure punishment, channel, exemptions and messages
/honeypot config	Show the current trap settings
/honeypot reset	Delete the trap channel and wipe its settings
/honeypot variables	List the tokens the warning and DM messages accept

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Punishments

Punishment	Notes
ban	Permanent
softban	Ban + unban; takes a purge window of 12 hours, 1 day or 7 days
kick	Remove from the server
warn	Case entry only
jail	Needs /setup jail first
timeout	Discord’s native timeout

Both the trap warning and the trigger DM accept plain text or an embed script, so the trap can look like a normal rule reminder instead of an obvious trap.

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Rotating names

Trap channel names can rotate hourly, so regulars can’t learn to avoid “the weird empty channel”. Turn rotation on inside /honeypot edit.

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Safety rails

• Administrators are always exempt · arming a trap can never lock you out.
• The bot skips anyone it couldn’t moderate anyway, and members below its top role are unaffected.
• Catches post to the log channel alongside other moderation records. Silence them under /config view → Logs → Ban, timeout & honeypot logs.

Choosing the jail punishment only works after /setup jail has built the role and private channel. Otherwise the catch is logged but the member is not moved.