AutoMod: Block Words in Member Profile Names

What it does

This is disabled by default. When enabled, Discord can perform actions whenever a user joins or edits their server or public Discord profile.

The filtering lets you use text patterns or regex to set up blocked words and phrases, and lets you use text patterns to add exceptions.

The fields this rule checks are:

global display name
global username
server nickname

Whenever a violation is matched, Discord always blocks it or the user in one way or another — this action is mandatory and can’t be disabled. In addition, you can send an alert to a fixed channel.

You can also choose roles to ignore, so that anyone with one of those roles isn’t auto-moderated.

Anyone with the Administrator or Manage Server permission is always ignored. If some of your staff don’t have these permissions, you may need to add their role(s) to the ignore list.

What happens per scenario

As mentioned, if the member has a role that’s exempted, AutoMod won’t do anything.

Location of flagged content	Scenario	What will happen
Account username	No server nickname	The user receives an indefinite timeout in that server until they change their username or set a nickname.
Account username	Violating account username, but a non-violating server nickname	Nothing happens to the user. Setting a nickname can resolve a Discord account having a violating username.
Global display name	— (any)	The user receives an indefinite timeout in that server until they remove the violating content.
Global pronouns	— (any)	Not enforced. Nothing happens.
Global bio	— (any)	Not enforced. Nothing happens.
Server nickname	User is already in the server	Saving the change fails, saying it contains a flagged word.
Server nickname	User is re-joining the server	Server nicknames are always cleared when you leave a server.
Server pronouns	— (any)	Not enforced. Nothing happens.
Server bio	— (any)	Not enforced. Nothing happens.