Basic Concepts

Commands

Most of Archivian’s commands are staff tools. They are visible to everyone in your server, but Archivian rejects them when someone who is not registered as staff — or who lacks the required permission — tries to use them.

A few commands are intentionally available to every member. For example, /report (and the matching right-click actions) lets any member report a user or message to your moderators.

See Commands for the full list.

Registered Staff

Archivian works a bit differently than other bots: you need to actively invite your staff members to it.

• The Owner is always automatically registered as staff.
• If someone other than the Owner adds the bot, that user is also automatically added as staff.

All other users are not treated as staff — you must add them yourself.

Permissions & Titles

Each of your staff members can have at most one title assigned to them. A title can be something like “Moderator”, “Head Administrator”, or anything else you can imagine. Titles are arbitrary, and you can create them as you wish.

Titles

You get a set of built-in titles by default. You can rename them and change their permissions as you like, but they cannot be deleted. On top of them, you can create your own custom titles; how many depends on your plan.

Co-Owner

Comes with permissions as close to the Owner’s as possible. Some settings in Archivian are owner-only.

Administrator

Has permissions to basically everything. Almost indistinguishable from Co-Owner.

Moderator

Has permissions to handle day-to-day moderation and member management. Does not get access to settings.

Trial-Moderator

Similar to Moderator, but with fewer permissions to make permanent changes — for example, Trial-Moderators cannot delete cases.

Permissions

Permissions are given to titles, not users.

So to give a staff member permissions, you give permissions to a title, then give them that title — a bit like how you use Roles in Discord, except that a staff member can only have one title at a time.