Discord bots are a useful tool that can help increase the productivity and interactivity of your Discord server in a variety of ways. These bots can perform a wide range of tasks, including playing music, moderation, automated messages, and more. With the availability of numerous bots and the constant development of new ones, you can easily find the bot that best fits your server's needs. By simply adding the right bot, you can streamline the management of your server and offer a more engaging and customized experience to your server members.
One Discord bot that has become well-known for its duties on the platform is QOTD Bot. But what does it do and how can you use it on your own server? In this article, we will guide you on how to invite the bot and show you its features.
What is QOTD Bot?
QOTD Bot helps keep your community active by automatically posting questions, facts, quotes, and more! You may create a Discord community with the bot without investing a lot of effort in the server.
QOTD Bot Features
- Schedule posts daily, weekly, monthly, or whatever custom schedule!
- Use the built-in “QOTD Starter Deck” or add your own custom cards (questions, facts, quotes, etc).
- Control how posts are made, with support for threads and pinning messages.
- Automatically ping roles when posts are made.
- Allow users to submit card suggestions for the server!
- Use the queue to control which cards are posted next!
- Customize your post with a custom title, description, and color!
Cards and Decks
What are Cards?
Cards are the items being posted in the channel. These could be questions, facts, trivia, quotes, or whatever you’d like.
Cards can be created in 2 different ways:
- Creating cards with the
/card add
command will directly add new cards to a deck. - Suggesting cards with the
/suggest new
command will add the card to the channel’s suggestions. These will need to be approved by staff before they are added to a deck.
What are Decks?
Decks are a group of cards, and all cards must be part of a deck. They help to organize cards into different categories, or with different settings, within the same channel.
For example, you might have separate decks for Would You Rather
, Video Game Questions
, and Member Suggestions
all under the same #question-of-the-day
channel.
You can create new decks with the /deck new
command.
Decks can also be prioritized to determine which cards are posted first. For example, you might want to post any cards in the Member Suggestions
deck before posting Would You Rather
cards, so you can give Member Suggestions
a higher priority of 1
and Would You Rather
a lower priority of 2
. Decks with the same priority will be treated as if they were combined.
Source: QOTD Discord Bots Website
How to invite QOTD Bot on a Discord Server?
Step 1. Open your Discord app in browser
You have to open your Discord account in your browser since you need to invite the bot in your server.
Step 2. Visit QOTD Bot’s Website
You can either search on Google to look for the official link on Top.gg.
Top.gg is a search-and-discovery website, where anyone can list their Discord bots, servers, or DAOs.
Step 3. Invite QOTD Bot to your Server
After visiting the bot's Top.gg page. You will see two buttons, "Invite" and "Vote". Since you first need to invite the bot on your server, click on "Invite".
Note: You need to be atleast a bot master / bot permission to invite the bot to your target server.
Step 4. Selecting your Server
After inviting the bot, you will be then redirected to this page asking you to add the bot on the server of your choice. In this instance, I will be adding the QOTD Bot to my test server, GoLinuxCloud Test Server.
After selecting the server of your choice, click "Continue".
Step 5. Authorizing QOTD Bot to your Server
The bot will ask you permissions to access the server. You don't have to worry because you can change these permissions later.
Scroll down and click "Authorize". This will make the bot receive all the permissions that they asked you to confirm.
Step 6. Completing the Captcha Challenge
After authorizing the bot, you now need to complete a captcha challenge to prove that you're not a bot. Put a check on the box and complete the channel then you're good to go.
Step 7. QOTD Bot Successfully Invited
After completing the captcha challenge, you will be prompted that you can close or refresh the tab now. You have now successfully invited QOTD Bot on your Discord Server.
QOTD Bot Commands
List of Commands
Below is a list of all commands available in QOTD Bot. Some commands may be hidden if you don’t have permission to view them in Discord.
/setup
- Run setup for a channel./view
channels
- View all channel setups.decks
- View all decks in a channel.cards
- View cards in a deck.card
- Preview a specific card.suggestions
-View suggested cards for a channel.
/server
settings
- View server settings.edit
time_zone
- Edit server time zone.language
- Edit server language.
/channel
settings
- View a channel’s settings.permissions
- Check the bot’s permissions for a channel.edit
schedule
- Edit a channel’s post schedule.mode
- Edit a channel’s post mode.ping
- “Edit a channel’s ping.title
- Edit a channel’s title.description
- Edit a channel’s description.color
- Edit a channel’s post color.max_suggestions
- Edit a channel’s maximum number of suggestions per user.
move
- Move a channel’s setup to a different channel.pause
- Pause a channel.resume
- Resume a channel.skip
- Skip or unskip a channel’s next post.delete
- Delete a channel setup.
/deck
new
- Create a new deck.settings
- View a deck’s settings.edit
name
- Edit a deck’s name.priority
- Edit a deck’s priority.card_order
- Edit a deck’s card order.auto_reset
- Edit if a deck should auto-reset or not.
move
- Move a deck to a different channel.order
- Reorder a card in a deck.enable
- Enable a deck.disable
- Disable a deck.shuffle
- Shuffle order of all cards in a deck.reset
- Reset a deck.delete
- Delete a deck.
/queue
add
- Add a card to the queue.first
- Add a card to the front of the queue.order
- Reorder a card in the queue.remove
- Remove a card from the queue.
/suggestions
approve
- Approve a suggested card.deny
- Deny a suggested card.
/card
add
** - Add a new card.edit
text
- Edit a card’s text.image
- Edit a card’s image.
set
- Set a card as posted or unposted.move
- Move a card to a different deck.delete
- Delete a card.
/test
- Trigger a test post./post
- Force a card to be posted./download
- Download QOTD Starter Deck./suggest
new
** - Suggest a new card.edit
text
- Edit a suggested card’s text.image
- Edit a suggested card’s image.
/premium
info
- View premium information.subscribe
- Subscribe to premium.
/vote
- Vote for QOTD Bot./info
- View bot info./help
- Find help or contact support.
Summary
The ideal bot when looking for an active server is QOTD. Sadly, it could be challenging to use the server for the first time. Using the QOTD bot on Discord is simple once you are familiar with the commands. When your server has three channels, the bot is utilized. Create three channels: questions, answers, and hall of fame after you've added it to your server and set up the fundamental settings.