Kuratos guides
Understand every module, and learn how to run a Discord server that works.
Running a Discord server
Guides that cover the subject on its own terms — moderation, security, onboarding — before talking about tools.
How to moderate a Discord server
Rules, roles, permissions, sanctions, auto-moderation: how to moderate a Discord server from start to finish, with concrete settings and the traps to avoid.
How to secure a Discord server
Raids, disposable accounts, scam links, compromised bots: the settings that actually protect a Discord server, and the ones that do nothing.
Setting up a ticket system on Discord
Private channel, open button, categories, transcript, closing: how to build a Discord ticket system that holds up, and what to avoid.
Discord welcome message: how to get it right
Where to post it, what to put in it, how long, DM or channel: how to write a Discord welcome message newcomers actually read.
Discord auto roles: panels, reactions and join roles
Join role, button panel, reaction roles: how to hand out roles automatically on Discord without opening a permissions hole.
How to create a Discord server
Creating the server, choosing channels, setting roles and permissions, welcoming the first members: everything to do, and in what order.
Discord permissions explained
How Discord permissions really work: roles add up, hierarchy, channel overrides, and the three traps that break a server.
Growing your Discord server
Attracting members is the easy half; keeping them is the real subject. The levers that work, and the ones that inflate a counter and nothing else.
Setting up a levelling system on Discord
What a levelling system is for, how to set XP and the curve, what rewards to give, and the settings that make it produce spam instead of activity.
Running a giveaway on Discord
Choosing the prize, setting useful conditions, drawing, handling an absent winner: how to run a Discord giveaway that brings more than a counter.
Recruiting and training Discord moderators
When to recruit, where to look, what to ask, which rights to grant and in what order: building a moderation team that lasts.
Enabling Community mode on Discord
What Community mode unlocks, the requirements to meet, how to enable it, and what Server Discovery is actually good for.
Running an event on Discord
Choosing a format, handling sign-ups, announcing at the right time, hosting without losing track, handing out rewards: the full method.
The modules, one by one
What each Kuratos module does, what order to configure it in, and the mistakes that come up most.
Welcome
A new member decides in under a minute whether to stay. The Welcome module exists to fill that minute: say where they have landed, give them one thing to do, and screen out whatever is not human along the way.
Automatic roles
The Automatic roles module covers the three ways of handing out a role with no human involved. It is entirely free in Kuratos: it contains no paid feature.
Levels / XP
A levelling system does not create activity — it reveals it. Set well, it gives regulars a visible reason to stay; set badly, it produces empty chatter and a leaderboard nobody looks at.
Economy
The Economy module gives your server a currency, ways to earn it, and things to spend it on. It works in three parts: earnings, the shop, and what links them — the leaderboard.
Trading
As soon as a server has an economy, members trade things — and get scammed. The Trading module replaces “send first, I’ll send back after” with a transaction both parties confirm, and that nobody can change afterwards.
Moderation / Logs
Discord knows how to ban. It does not know how to remember. The Moderation module adds the three missing pieces: a per-member history, temporary sanctions that lift themselves, and a log of what the team decided.
Auto-moderation
Auto-moderation does not replace moderators: it takes away the work that never needed a human. Set well, it is invisible. Set badly, it hits normal conversation and teaches members to work around it.
Messages
The Messages module publishes, under the bot’s identity, messages Discord will not let you compose by hand: formatted embeds, buttons, dropdowns, and posting at a chosen time.
Social notifications
The module automatically posts to a Discord channel what happens elsewhere: a live starting, a video going out, a game being given away. Each source is a “feed” configured on its own.
Reports
With no reporting tool, a member who sees abuse has two options: ping staff in public — which inflames things — or do nothing. The module adds a third: report quietly, and get an answer.
Tickets
The Tickets module replaces DMs to staff with a private, temporary channel per request. What changes is not comfort: the request becomes visible to the whole team, and it survives the absence of whoever was handling it.
Community
The Community module bundles three unrelated tools that answer the same need: making a server feel alive without manual work. Voice hubs, statistics channels, memory walls.
Infinity Road
A counting channel: members post 1, 2, 3… in turn, and the server tries to go as far as it can. It is silly, and it is one of the most active channels a server can have.
Suggestions
A suggestion box is less about finding good ideas than about showing the bad ones were considered. The module frames the whole cycle: submission, vote, decision, and answer.
Custom commands
The module lets you create your own commands without writing code: you decide the name, who may use it, what the bot replies and what it does next.
Events
Running an event on Discord always hits the same three obstacles: knowing who is taking part, counting points, and announcing a result nobody disputes. The module handles all three.
Giveaways
A giveaway draws a crowd. That is its point, and its problem: it draws accounts that came for the prize and left immediately. Entry conditions exist to sort them.
Bot management
This module is not about your members: it sets the relationship between your server and Kuratos itself. What the bot tells you, how you report a problem to us, and how it looks on your server.