For bots masquerading as users, there aren't many options. I suppose you could in a very close-knit friend group, but if you're running anything at scale this i

For bots masquerading as users, there aren't many options. I suppose you could in a very close-knit friend group, but if you're running anything at scale this is next to impossible. From what I understand, a lot of the bots join and never do anything. Some administrators set their server up to create a temporary holding room for new members and ask them to add a reaction to a message, or do a CAPTCHA, but that still falls apart if someone does all that manually then uses their account as a bot. If you're interested, there are plenty of readymade bots (heh) that do all this verification stuff, and they are quite popular. You could also prune inactive members, but again the user account could just say something every now and again, plus any real users who find they have been kicked out for not participating might not be particularly pleased (or might just forget about your server altogether). My point in the above message mainly focused on bot accounts. It's best to operate at the principle of least privilege. You don't need a music bot to see your staff channels, for example. Keeping with that example, some administrators take the time to limit music bots to a specific music channel. For that, I applaud them. There are simple ways to limit the data bots can get, which mostly rely on common sense on account of the server administrator(s).