🤖 Bot Permissions

EazyAutodelete requires specific permissions to function correctly within your Discord server. Below is a list of the essential permissions the bot needs, along with explanations of their purposes.

• View Channel: Allows the bot to see channels where it needs to operate.
• Read Message History: Enables the bot to read past messages in channels to determine which messages need to be deleted based on your configurations.
• Manage Messages: Grants the bot the ability to delete messages as per the configured rules.

Function-Specific Permissions

Voice Channels

If you want to use EazyAutodelete to autodelete messages in Voice Channels, the bot will also need:

• Connect: Allows the bot to connect to voice channels.

This is due to Discord’s permission structure, which requires bots to have the Connect permission to interact with voice channels, even for message deletion purposes. EazyAutodelete will never join or listen to a Voice Channel; it only needs this permission to manage messages in the voice channel’s text channel.

/autodelete-notice Command

To use the /autodelete-notice command, the bot additionally requires the following permission:

• Send Messages: Allows the bot to send the notice message in the channel where the command is executed.

Thread, Forum & Category Features

For features that reach into threads or forum posts (“Include Threads”, Category Setup, Forum Setup, Post Rules), the bot additionally needs:

• Manage Threads: Lets the bot see private threads without being invited to each one, and archive/lock/delete threads where configured.

Why this permission matters and what it does NOT mean:

• For reading & deleting messages inside public threads/posts, the base three permissions suffice.
• Thread types and a thread’s parent channel can never change - so permissions are only evaluated when these features are actually enabled, never for everyone by default. If your server doesn’t use thread features, the bot won’t ask for it.
• Private threads that neither invited the bot nor can be managed by it are fundamentally invisible - Discord provides no way for any bot to know they exist. With Manage Threads granted, they are fully visible and manageable instead.

/duplicate Command

For the /duplicate command to function, the bot needs these permissions as well:

• Manage Channels: Enables the bot to create duplicate channels as specified by the command.