Quick Start Guide
are you interested in keeping your server members safe from hackers and compromised bots? You're in the right place! This guide will walk you through setting up Good Knight in your Discord server
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are you interested in keeping your server members safe from hackers and compromised bots? You're in the right place! This guide will walk you through setting up Good Knight in your Discord server
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Add Good Knight to your server
Drag its role above any active role
Server owner runs and follows the walkthrough
Create moderators with
Good Knight invite link:
Note: For the rest of this Quick Start Guide, it is assumed that Good Knight was given Administrator permissions.
When added to your server, Good Knight will create its own role. This role should be dragged up towards the top of the role list. Just below any . Good Knight is your last line of defense against hackers and compromised bots. Its role should be above any other security or moderation bots (Wick, Dyno, Beemo, Security, etc.).
The Good Knight Permissions Wizard has the power to grant temporary permissions to your moderators. If this feature is activated, it is recommended to remove dangerous permissions from all active users in the server. Be sure to check for both role and channel overwrite permissions. Instead, admins and mods can be safely granted temporary permissions through the !
For a sample role setup, see below
Beware that users with Administrator permissions in any role above the Good Knight role will be able to kick/ban the bot. This includes other bots above the Good Knight role! This is a risk if they are compromised
Follow the walk-through prompts
Once a Good Knight admin has been selected, the owner can choose to either continue the setup or have the Good Knight admin continue for them
Once setup is complete, the owner and Good Knight admins can set their password and begin selecting users as Good Knight mods who can help manage the server.
When anti-link is active, Good Knight will delete any message including an unapproved link. Link and channel registration is a key feature that allows you to customize which links are trusted. The link registration list is managed using:
When anti-webhook is active, Good Knight will delete any messages sent by an unapproved webhook, unless that webhook is registered, and remove unregistered webhooks from your server. It also moderates any webhooks including Open webhooks, Channel Follows, and Closed Webhooks. Webhook moderation is managed using:
and can be viewed using the manager or:
The server owner can begin Good Knight setup by running the command in any channel.
Run the command
Good Knight will ask the server owner to select which password method will be used in the server: password, authenticator, or 2FA. Once the owner selects a method, they will be prompted to setup their password and/or authenticator access. For more information on password methods, see the .
Once the first 4 steps are completed, Good Knight is setup but you still need to choose which security features to activate from the drop-down menu. This task can be completed by the server owner or any of the selected Good Knight admins. The menu options allow you to select how Good Knight will operate in your server. This includes the Good Knight updates feed, Permissions Wizard, Panic Mode, anti-link, anti-webhook, moderations, etc. Other bots that block webhooks may affect updates feed setup. You may need to whitelist Good Knight or the webhook with that bot.
Give trusted users Good Knight permissions and mod access with
Good Knight mod should set their password with as soon as possible
One of the most advanced features of Good Knight is its password protected temporary permissions, a.k.a the Permissions Wizard. To understand how this works, it's a great idea to try out the Permissions Wizard with one of your mods. You can
