Welcome and Members
How Kage receives and guides new members: welcome and goodbye, onboarding, rules, birthdays and invites.
This section documents how Kage receives new members, what happens on a join and in which order, and how you look after the community through invites and birthdays.
- Welcome and goodbye: banners with avatar, placeholders and a staff log for departures.
- Onboarding and rules: a questionnaire for new members and the server rules by command.
- Birthdays: personal congratulations with a birthday role.
- Invites: who invited whom, plus the referral program.
Task-oriented walkthroughs are in the guides section.
Articles in this topic
- Welcome and Goodbye Messages: Banners and PlaceholdersHow Kage greets new members and reports departures: banner with avatar, placeholders, embed or text, staff log, commands and typical causes of errors.
- Onboarding: Role Selection, Survey and Completion Role for New MembersHow Kage's onboarding guides new members through the start: greeting, role panels, join survey and a Done button with a completion role – with flow and troubleshooting.
- Server Rules: /rules, Embed Post and Rules by DM on JoinHow Kage shows your server rules: the /rules command, a one-off embed post in a channel and delivery by DM to new members – with settings and troubleshooting.
- Birthdays: Announcement, Birthday Role and Time ZoneHow Kage handles birthdays: members enter their day by command, Kage announces it and optionally grants a birthday role – with time zone, February 29 and troubleshooting.
- Invite Tracking: Who Invited Whom, Real and Fake InvitesHow Kage detects who invited whom: attribution via invite links, real, fake and left invites, the /invites commands and troubleshooting.
- Referral Program: Rewards for Invites with Abuse ProtectionHow Kage's referral program grants roles or XP when members reach a number of real invites – with thresholds, abuse protection, commands and troubleshooting.