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Discord basics

Channels, roles, permissions and IDs — the few Discord concepts every page in these docs relies on.

Roles and the role order#

Roles bundle permissions. The bot can only give, remove or moderate roles that sit below its own role in Server Settings → Roles. Most "it doesn't work" problems come from this.

Channel permissions#

Each channel can override permissions per role. To make a channel private: deny View Channel for @everyone and allow it for the roles that should see it.

Copying an ID#

Enable Developer Mode (User Settings → Advanced). Then right-click any message, channel, role or member → Copy ID.

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