Management Concepts

PluralBuddy has many features that are cattered directly towards server administrators, moderators, and managers. Many of them elevate the experience of users on your server, or employ a strategy which makes PluralBuddy align with your server outline.

Blocked Channels/Roles

PluralBuddy allows both the blocking of channels in your server and the blocking of specific roles.

Blocked channels doesn't allow users to proxy when in a specific channel.

Blocked roles doesn't allow users to proxy if their host account contains a specific role.

Blocked roles will see the following message in DMs when attempting to proxy or use a command:

Blocked channels will see the following messages in DMs when attempting to proxy or use a command:

Commands

They can be enabled with the following commands:

pb;server-config blocks add-channel <channel> - Add channel where PluralBuddy will not work.

pb;server-config blocks add-role <role id or mention> - Add role where having this role will disallow users from proxying.

pb;server-config blocks list - List all blocked items.

pb;server-config blocks remove-channel <channel> - Remove channel where PluralBuddy will not work.

pb;server-config blocks remove-role <role id or mention> - Remove role where having this role will disallow users from proxying.

Role Containers

Role containers are a feature which allow users to be identified by their role. For example, if your users would want to see who is a moderator or not, role containers would look like this on a user:

Role containers have unique characteristics like how they wont remain after sending one or more consecutive messages and being directly attached to a role which makes them special compared to doing other more manual alternatives.

Commands

Role containers can be modified or enabled with the following commands:

pb;server-config role-containers view - View all role containers

pb;server-config role-containers set-contents <role id or mention> [contents] - Sets contents of a role container. If blank, contents will be cleared.

pb;server-config role-containers set-color <role id or mention> [hex color|"role"] - Sets color of a role container. If color is "role", it will be set to the primary color of the role. If blank, color will be cleared.

pb;server-config role-containers set-location <role id or mention> <top|bottom> - Sets location of a role container, either to the top or bottom of a proxied message.

Error Log

PluralBuddy stores logs when things go wrong related to permissions or other issues in the server. For example, if the server enforces a guild tag, that will both appear as an error in the server log and send a notification to the user.

They can be easily cleared, and usually aren't super critical issues. If you run into critical issues, please contact PluralBuddy Support.

You can access the error log using pb;server-config errors.

Proxy Delay

Usually, PluralBuddy tries to proxy messages as quickly as possible (<600ms speeds). However, this creates an offset issue which may occur where moderation bots may not recogonize or may run into an error cleaning up messages from PluralBuddy-proxied messages due to the speed of proxies.

PluralBuddy's solution to this is proxy delays. They work by waiting a certain amount of time before proxying any message sent in a guild, and after this delay, will check if the originally sent host message still exists, and if not, the proxy will be canceled.

This often will allow moderation bots to get a chance to delete messages before PluralBuddy will eventually delete the host message regardless.

Proxy delays can be at most 2.5 seconds.

Commands

pb;server-config set-proxy-delay <proxy-delay> - Set proxy delay.

Server managers

Server managers have the power to use any management related commands with PluralBuddy, besides users without Administrator or Manage Guild.

Commands

pb;server-config manager-roles add <role id or mention> - Add manager role which is able to access PluralBuddy server configuration commands. Requires Administrator or Manage Guild to use.

pb;server-config manager-roles list - List current manager roles.

pb;server-config manager-roles remove <role id or mention> - Remove manager role from PluralBuddy. Requires Administrator or Manage Guild to use.

Custom Prefixes

PluralBuddy allows you to set custom prefixes besides pb; and pb!, which are the default ones.

Commands

pb;server-config prefixes add-prefix <prefix> - Add a PluralBuddy prefix

pb;server-config prefixes list-prefixes - List all PluralBuddy prefixes

pb;server-config prefixes remove-prefix <prefix> - Remove a PluralBuddy prefix

Enforce System Tag

Enforcing system tag will enforce system prefixes/tags for all users proxying with PluralBuddy. Commands will not require system tags to be used unlike blocks.

Commands

pb;server-config require-tag <on|off> - Whether to enforce system tags or not.

Feature Flags

Disable `[APP]`/`[BOT]` explanation command: This command allows users to explain how users proxying with PluralBuddy are not applications/bots.

Disable about command: This command shows information about PluralBuddy.

Disable help command: This command shows information about the features & commands of PluralBuddy.

Disable Nudging: This allows users to ping ("nudge") other proxied users main account. Users can block other users not allowing them to be nudged.

Disable Message Info: This allows users to gain public information about another user based on a message they sent.

Forced Webhook Mode: This forces all users to proxy with webhook mode only. **This will not work if you have Forced Nickname Mode also enabled.**

Forced Nickname Mode: This forces all users to proxy with nickname mode only. **This will not work if you have Forced Webhook Mode also enabled.**

Disable Permission Check Command: This command shows server administrators and members whether they have permissions to do certain things.

Disable Proxy Typing: By default, PluralBuddy types in the channel after a message is proxied. Enabling this feature will disable proxy typing.

Above are all of the feature flags that PluralBuddy currently have. PluralBuddy feature flags disable or enable certain functionality of the bot.

Some features start with "disable", and when enabled the feature preceeding the "disabled" part is actually disabled.

Commands

This command is slash command only, meaning it can only be accessed when starting your command with a slash and using the native menu.

pb;server-config set-feature <feature> <on|off> - Slash command only, sets specific server features.

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