Messages

Use Messages when your server needs the same useful information at the right time.

Choose the right message

• Saved messages are announcements you write once and post or update when needed.
• Scheduled messages send once or repeat on the timing you choose.
• Auto-replies answer a member when their message matches the words you set.
• Sticky messages keep an important post visible as a conversation moves on.
• Auto-reactions put the same emojis under every new post in a channel, so members can answer in one tap.

Set it up safely

1. Choose the message type and target channel.
2. Write the text or embed, then check its formatting and buttons.
3. For a schedule, confirm the server time zone and next send time. For an auto-reply, use a narrow trigger so ordinary conversation does not set it off.
4. Save, publish, or turn the message on.

Check links, mentions, attachments, and channel permissions. Do not include private staff details or sensitive member information in a wider member channel.

Test the exact member journey, then view the result on desktop and mobile. If a scheduled message misses its time or an auto-reply does not run, first check the module switch and Guardy's access to that channel.

Auto-reactions

Auto-reactions suit announcements, art, introductions, and any channel where members vote or cheer with a tap. They are available on every plan.

1. Open Messages in the Guardy dashboard and choose the Auto-reactions tab.
2. Choose a text, announcement, forum, or media channel. Each channel can have one set of auto-reactions.
3. Add up to 20 emojis. Your server's own emojis are listed first, and you can also pick a standard emoji or paste one. Guardy adds them in the order you picked.
4. Choose whose posts get reactions: People, Bots and webhooks, or both. Bots and webhooks include announcements your server follows from other servers.
5. Turn on Also react in threads if replies inside the channel's threads should get them too. It is off by default.
6. Save. The sentence under the form tells you exactly what will happen before you do.

What gets reactions

• New posts only. Older messages, edited messages, and system messages such as joins, pins, and boosts are left alone.
• A member's post gets reactions once moderation has let it through, so a removed message never arrives decorated.
• Guardy never reacts to its own posts.
• In a forum or media channel, the first message of each new post gets the reactions. Private threads never do.
• If a post already shows 20 different reactions, Guardy stops there.

To take a break, switch Turn it on off: the setup stays saved and adds nothing. Removing a setup stops new reactions, and reactions already added stay where they are.

Permissions and fixes

Guardy needs View Channel, Read Message History, and Add Reactions in the channel. If it loses any of them, Guardy switches the setup off and the tab says which permissions to restore. Give them back, then turn the setup on again.

If one of your server emojis is deleted, Guardy skips it and keeps adding the others. The tab marks the missing emoji so you can edit the setup and pick a replacement.

Auto-reactions also pause while panic mode is on or the Messages module is switched off. During a very busy burst in one channel, Guardy may skip reactions on some posts so moderation always stays fast.