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By Mike
Discord Bot for Gaming Clans: Recruiting, Roles and Game Nights
A gaming clan Discord lives on roles, recruiting and getting people into voice at the same time. Noxyr gives you application forms, role panels, temporary voice rooms and a game night planner that compares Steam libraries. It does not track in-game stats or run clan wars.
A weekday in a clan server
Take a clan of 80 people across three time zones. A recruit asks how to join. Two players want the "Apex" role and one wants "Rocket League". Someone starts a voice call and asks who owns what game. Another member posts a link to a giveaway site that is clearly a scam. That is a normal day, and each of those moments maps to a module.
Recruiting new members
Make a Join the clan form with applications. The Apply button opens a private channel, asks your questions one at a time (platform, play times, favorite game, a reference) and sends the finished form to officers with Accept and Reject buttons. Accepting gives a member role and DMs the result. Officers can keep several forms: one for the main roster, one for "casual".
If you want to know where recruits come from, invite tracking records which invite each member used, and referrals can give a role at a number of counted invites. Referrals include a stay timer, so inviting people who leave right away does not count. Only use official invites. Do not pay for or fake members.
Self-service game roles
Reaction roles let members pick their games with buttons or a dropdown. A panel holds up to 20 roles, and "one role only" makes a panel behave like a radio button, which suits a region or a platform. Members press again to remove the role, so officers never touch it. Roles that carry moderation permissions are refused, so a panel cannot be abused.
Game nights that start on time
This is the part clans enjoy. Members link a public Steam profile once with /gamenight link. In a voice channel, /gamenight common lists the games everyone present owns, sorted by hours played together. /gamenight plan posts a night with Going, Maybe and Can't buttons and pings everyone who is going at start time. The game night page and docs cover the details. Members must set Steam game details to Public, or Noxyr cannot see them.
For clan-wide decisions, such as "which game for the weekend?", a poll with up to ten buttons is quicker than a thread.
Voice rooms without a mess of channels
Temporary voice lets a member join a hub channel and get their own room, named after them. They can rename it, set a user limit, lock it or hand it over. Empty rooms are deleted. You keep one hub instead of twenty permanent "Squad 3" channels.
Keeping it clean
- Anti-spam and link filters remove invite spam and scam links.
- Warnings keep a record with auto timeouts or bans at counts you pick.
- Starboard collects clips and jokes that get enough star reactions into a best-of channel. Fun, and good for morale.
- Reputation lets members thank each other for help, with reward roles like Helper.
Suggested setup order
- Invite Noxyr through the invite link and move its role above every role it will manage.
- Rules and verification so new people land in one channel.
- Role panels for games, regions and ping roles.
- Recruitment form with an officer-only review channel.
- Temp voice hub and the first game night.
- Anti-spam, link filters and logs.
- Starboard and reputation when chat has some life.
Running the first month of recruitment
Recruitment goes wrong when the form is too long or too vague. Start with five questions: platform, play times, games, experience and a reference. Review applications within a day or two, because slow replies lose good players. Accepted recruits get a Recruit role, not full member status, and an officer promotes them after a trial period. The application flow can only give one accept role, so promotion is a manual step.
Keeping officers sane
- Make roles self-service. If officers hand out game roles by hand, they burn out fast.
- Write a one-page rules post. Link it from the welcome message and the verify channel.
- Use logs. When two members disagree about who said what, deleted and edited messages are in the log channel.
- Review inactive members rarely. A calm, scheduled clean-up beats a surprise purge.
If you run several rosters, make one application form per roster, each with its own review channel and officer role.
What Noxyr does not do for clans
- No in-game stats, clan war tracking, rank sync or leaderboards from a game.
- No leveling or XP based on Discord activity.
- Game night uses Steam only. Console and non-Steam libraries are not read.
- No general reminders. Birthdays are supported, and there is a ticket reminder, but nothing like "remind me in an hour".
Where to go from here
The gaming community template has a channel layout that matches this list. Read the reaction roles doc first, because role order is the thing that trips most clans up.
Common questions
Can Noxyr show which games my clan members own?
Yes, for Steam. Members link a public Steam profile, and /gamenight common lists games everyone in a voice channel owns. Other platforms are not read.
How do I let members pick their own game roles?
Create a reaction role panel with buttons or a dropdown. Each panel holds up to 20 roles and members can add or remove them themselves.
Does Noxyr have clan leveling?
No. There is no XP system. Reputation points exist for thanking helpful members.
Can I run several recruitment forms?
Yes. You can create as many application forms as you like, each with its own questions and review channel.
