Ping flood lockdown

What it does

A ping flood is several accounts pinging people as fast as they can. Automod times each one out, but ten accounts can still land a lot of pings before the last one is stopped.

Ping flood lockdown watches the whole server, not one person. When the pings add up, it locks every channel so no more can be sent.

Turn it on

1. 1

   Open Automod in the dashboard

   Automod itself must be switched on.

2. 2

   Open Advanced settings

   Find the group called Ping flood lockdown.

3. 3

   Switch on Lock the server on a ping flood

   The three numbers appear underneath.

4. 4

   Press Save

   The defaults suit most servers. Leave them unless you have a reason.

Settings

How pings are counted

• Each person or role pinged in a message counts as one ping.
• A ping of @everyone or @here counts as one more.
• Pings from every ordinary member are added together, across every channel.
• Staff aren't counted. That means the owner, trusted people, anyone with Manage Messages or Administrator, and your moderator roles.
• Roles and channels Automod ignores aren't counted.
• Roles you've allowed to ping lots of people, or to ping @everyone, aren't counted for those pings. See Exceptions for one thing on the Automod page.
• Bots and webhooks aren't counted.

For example, 10 accounts each send one message that pings 5 people. That's 50 pings. If it happens inside 5 seconds, the server locks.

What happens

1. 1

   Every channel locks

   It's the same lock as /lockdown start. Nobody can send messages in any channel Bastion can edit. See lockdown.

2. 2

   Your staff are told

   An alert called Ping flood: server locked goes to your log channel. It pings your alert roles, if you chose any. A case is saved.

3. 3

   The flooders are dealt with

   Automod still times out each account that overheated. The lock gives it time to finish.

4. 4

   The channels unlock

   After 10 minutes Bastion puts every channel back the way it was and posts Lockdown ended. It checks twice a minute, so the unlock can be a few seconds late.

To unlock sooner, run /lockdown end. The unlock time is saved, so a restart of the bot doesn't leave your server locked.

Things to know

• If the server is already locked, nothing changes and no second alert is posted.
• If someone runs /lockdown start while a ping flood lock is on, the lock becomes theirs. It no longer unlocks by itself.
• If panic mode starts during a ping flood lock, the panic decides when the channels unlock.
• Only the channels are unlocked automatically. Single channel locks, the join lock and staff power lockdown are left as they are.
• Bastion needs Manage Channels and Manage Roles to lock a channel. If it can't lock any, the alert says so.
• A long flood is reported once a minute at most.