Question 1

What is Wardnox?

Accepted Answer

Wardnox is a configurable Discord security and anti-scam platform. It resolves messages past the disguises attackers use, weighs evidence from twenty independent detectors across four stages, and applies only the response an administrator configured, with a readable explanation behind every decision.

Question 2

Does Wardnox come with a scam blocklist?

Accepted Answer

No, and that is deliberate. It ships with no hardcoded scam phrases that block anything on their own. What it catches is either a rule you wrote or a combination of weak signals it can account for to you. The example rules are clearly labelled as examples so nobody mistakes them for a curated ruleset.

Question 3

Will it start deleting messages as soon as I add it?

Accepted Answer

No. It starts in monitor mode, which scans, scores and logs everything while enforcing nothing. You read a day of real decisions against your own traffic before switching enforcement on deliberately. The bot also says nothing in your server when it joins.

Question 4

How does it handle disguised scams?

Accepted Answer

A filter that only reads what was typed loses to anyone willing to type it differently. Wardnox resolves each message past the common families of disguise before any rule looks at it, covering look-alike characters, invisible ones, text broken apart, and content wrapped in other content. Your moderators are told which form of a message a rule matched, so a catch is never unexplained.

Question 5

Can a bad rule of mine take down my server?

Accepted Answer

No. Patterns are checked for dangerous constructions before they can be saved, and run isolated and time bounded so a bad one cannot stall anything. A rule that starts misfiring at scale is pulled automatically and your moderators are notified, before it becomes a mass deletion.

Question 6

What data does Wardnox store?

Accepted Answer

Clean messages are never stored. The overwhelming majority of traffic is examined in memory and written nowhere. It never stores direct messages, voice, presence, typing, Discord access tokens at rest, or the contents of attachments. Turning message content storage off entirely is fully supported and does not affect how well it detects anything.

Question 7

Does anything leave my server?

Accepted Answer

Nothing leaves the deployment by default. Link resolution, threat intelligence and AI review are each off until you set both an environment variable and a server setting. When enabled, what leaves is limited to what is needed to ask the question, and never user IDs, usernames, channel IDs or guild IDs.

Question 8

Is Wardnox self-hosted?

Accepted Answer

Yes. There is no Wardnox-operated service, no telemetry and no phone-home. Whoever runs the deployment is the data controller. It is MIT licensed.

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