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During the era of online community, an invite checker bot is one of the strongest weapons that a server administrator can have at their disposal, or, to be more precise, an invite checker is a bot that is capable of monitoring, verifying, and controlling invite links within a Discord server. When properly utilized, it transforms your server into more than another chat room into a community that you trust in and are a part of and know how to distinguish who is coming in and why.
This is why invite-checker bots are important, their functionality, how to implement one, and what ethical / practical issues to take into account.
Why Use an Invite-Checker Bot?
Accountability and transparency Accountants must possess sound judgment, intellect, and independent thinking abilities to deliver accurate financial information to their clients.<|human|>Accountability and transparency Accountants need to have good sense, brain and critical thinking skills to provide correct financial information to their clients.
When members are made aware of the tracking of invites, you have created a culture of transparency - nobody wonders who sent an invitation to whom. Certain bots allow you to see the list of the best inviters, monitor invites per user, and invite histories. An example is the bot Invite Tracker which states that it tracks the person who invited you to their server.
Top.gg
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Encouraging Genuine Growth
Invite-checker instead of random or mass invites allows you to give out the real inviters (e.g. user who recruits active members) and spy on suspicious invite behaviour (bots, fakes, raid invites). This is to make sure that growth is not quantity.
Diluted Community Management.
The automation of join/leave messages, the verification of the invite sources, and the dashboards make invites management much easier. Certain bots allow one to customize messages that are sent when a member joins or leaves.
Discord Bots
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Increased Interaction and Retention.
When you are aware of the inviter who introduced a member, you can attach roles, the recognition or reward system to that. This creates loyalty to the community, responsibility and a feedback loop of positive growth (inviter invites do become active) and a new member.
What Is the Working of an Invite-Checker Bot?
The following are the common steps / features:
Invite link generation and tracking: The bot follows unique invite links generated by users (or due to server settings) and logs which invite a new member used.
MEE6
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Recording inviter & invitee: When a user joins, the bot links that join to the inviter (user who created/used the invite link).
Leaderboards and statistics: The bot can provide such commands as /invites, /leaderboard or /inviter, to see how many people a user invited, or who invited a certain member.
MEE6
+1
check and spam: The verification of new members (number of messages in server, length of stay, captcha) is occasionally used as an anti-abuse measure to ensure that fake/unresponsive accounts are not counted as invitations.
Role and reward integration The bot can be configured that when a user reaches a certain number of invites (e.g., 10 successful invites), he/she gets a role, channel access, or other benefits.
Discord Bots
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Invite-Checker: How to Install a Bot (Step by Step).
Choose the Bot
Find an invite tracker or invite logger or invites checker on a list of bots (e.g., top.gg). Example: Invite Tracker (has 1.8 M+ servers) and InviteLogger (has 400M+ invites) are available.
invitelogger.me
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Invite the Bot to Your Server
Use the bot’s invite link.
Provide needed permissions (Manage Server, Manage Roles, etc.). Example: Invite Tracker lists require Manage Server / Roles / Channels.
Discord Bots
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Configure Bot Settings
Set join/leave messages.
Decide on the invites (do invites have to be created by users, or only by server-admins).
Rules of counting invites (e.g., invitee has to stay 24 hours, has to send at least one message). Example of MEE6 Invite Tracker: Invite Tracker plugin: “users need to remain in the server at least 24 hours...invite link needs to be generated through the /invites command.
MEE6
Enabling Leaderboards and Rewards.
Activities such as /leaderboard should be used to allow the public to view the top inviters and this motivates the members.
Design positions or bonuses that are given once a user reaches this or that milestone on inviting people.
Monitor & Maintain
Periodically review logs and statistics to identify suspicious trends (e.g. a single user inviting a large number of inactive users).
Updating permissions/config where necessary.
Make sure that your moderating team is aware of the invite counting and the abuse management.
Best Practices & Ethical.
Get consent and understanding: Be certain that users are aware of invitations being followed up on and any kind of reward or incentive they would get. Transparency builds trust.
No predatory incentives: Inviting rewards are okay, however, do not promote inviting fake accounts, bots or spamming invites. That kills community integrity.
Delimit correct invites: e.g. only count an invite when it was replying to a message, or remained 24 hours. This minimizes the counts of fake/inactive accounts recruited.
Show respect privacy: Invites tracking is okay but do not gather sensitive personal information. Tracking should be done with what is necessary.
Spot misuse & raids: Bad actors can use invite links in raid situations or invite bad actors. Tag suspicious inviters and remove them using the logs of the bot. Example: On Reddit, the community members post the question are there bots that will tell me what invite a person joined with? as a way of detecting raids.
Reddit
Periodically audit: Review of invite-tracking logs, deletion of old invite links and rotation or renewal of special invite links as necessary.
This is why invite-checker bots are important, their functionality, how to implement one, and what ethical / practical issues to take into account.
Why Use an Invite-Checker Bot?
Accountability and transparency Accountants must possess sound judgment, intellect, and independent thinking abilities to deliver accurate financial information to their clients.<|human|>Accountability and transparency Accountants need to have good sense, brain and critical thinking skills to provide correct financial information to their clients.
When members are made aware of the tracking of invites, you have created a culture of transparency - nobody wonders who sent an invitation to whom. Certain bots allow you to see the list of the best inviters, monitor invites per user, and invite histories. An example is the bot Invite Tracker which states that it tracks the person who invited you to their server.
Top.gg
+1
Encouraging Genuine Growth
Invite-checker instead of random or mass invites allows you to give out the real inviters (e.g. user who recruits active members) and spy on suspicious invite behaviour (bots, fakes, raid invites). This is to make sure that growth is not quantity.
Diluted Community Management.
The automation of join/leave messages, the verification of the invite sources, and the dashboards make invites management much easier. Certain bots allow one to customize messages that are sent when a member joins or leaves.
Discord Bots
+1
Increased Interaction and Retention.
When you are aware of the inviter who introduced a member, you can attach roles, the recognition or reward system to that. This creates loyalty to the community, responsibility and a feedback loop of positive growth (inviter invites do become active) and a new member.
What Is the Working of an Invite-Checker Bot?
The following are the common steps / features:
Invite link generation and tracking: The bot follows unique invite links generated by users (or due to server settings) and logs which invite a new member used.
MEE6
+1
Recording inviter & invitee: When a user joins, the bot links that join to the inviter (user who created/used the invite link).
Leaderboards and statistics: The bot can provide such commands as /invites, /leaderboard or /inviter, to see how many people a user invited, or who invited a certain member.
MEE6
+1
check and spam: The verification of new members (number of messages in server, length of stay, captcha) is occasionally used as an anti-abuse measure to ensure that fake/unresponsive accounts are not counted as invitations.
Role and reward integration The bot can be configured that when a user reaches a certain number of invites (e.g., 10 successful invites), he/she gets a role, channel access, or other benefits.
Discord Bots
+1
Invite-Checker: How to Install a Bot (Step by Step).
Choose the Bot
Find an invite tracker or invite logger or invites checker on a list of bots (e.g., top.gg). Example: Invite Tracker (has 1.8 M+ servers) and InviteLogger (has 400M+ invites) are available.
invitelogger.me
+1
Invite the Bot to Your Server
Use the bot’s invite link.
Provide needed permissions (Manage Server, Manage Roles, etc.). Example: Invite Tracker lists require Manage Server / Roles / Channels.
Discord Bots
+1
Configure Bot Settings
Set join/leave messages.
Decide on the invites (do invites have to be created by users, or only by server-admins).
Rules of counting invites (e.g., invitee has to stay 24 hours, has to send at least one message). Example of MEE6 Invite Tracker: Invite Tracker plugin: “users need to remain in the server at least 24 hours...invite link needs to be generated through the /invites command.
MEE6
Enabling Leaderboards and Rewards.
Activities such as /leaderboard should be used to allow the public to view the top inviters and this motivates the members.
Design positions or bonuses that are given once a user reaches this or that milestone on inviting people.
Monitor & Maintain
Periodically review logs and statistics to identify suspicious trends (e.g. a single user inviting a large number of inactive users).
Updating permissions/config where necessary.
Make sure that your moderating team is aware of the invite counting and the abuse management.
Best Practices & Ethical.
Get consent and understanding: Be certain that users are aware of invitations being followed up on and any kind of reward or incentive they would get. Transparency builds trust.
No predatory incentives: Inviting rewards are okay, however, do not promote inviting fake accounts, bots or spamming invites. That kills community integrity.
Delimit correct invites: e.g. only count an invite when it was replying to a message, or remained 24 hours. This minimizes the counts of fake/inactive accounts recruited.
Show respect privacy: Invites tracking is okay but do not gather sensitive personal information. Tracking should be done with what is necessary.
Spot misuse & raids: Bad actors can use invite links in raid situations or invite bad actors. Tag suspicious inviters and remove them using the logs of the bot. Example: On Reddit, the community members post the question are there bots that will tell me what invite a person joined with? as a way of detecting raids.
Periodically audit: Review of invite-tracking logs, deletion of old invite links and rotation or renewal of special invite links as necessary.
