# Raid alerts, lockdown, and putting the server back · Sift Mod

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> A burst of joins can ping your mods, optionally lock every channel, and unlock later without undoing your read-only channels.

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SFT.BLOG // safety // September 26, 2026

# Raid alerts, lockdown, and putting the server back

A burst of joins can ping your mods, optionally lock every channel, and unlock later without undoing your read-only channels.

Raids are loud and fast. The useful part of a mod bot is noticing the pattern before your team has finished reading the first spam wave.

## What triggers an alert

Sift watches join rate: too many accounts in a short window and your log channel gets a raid alert, with how many joins happened and how many accounts look brand new. You decide the numbers in /settings.

## Optional auto-lockdown

If you opt in, Sift can lock text channels when a raid is detected. That's a big hammer, so it's off by default. When you run /lockdown to undo it, Sift puts each channel's send permission back the way it was, so read-only channels stay read-only. Slowmode isn't touched either way.

## Whole-server scope

/lockdown scope:Whole server locks or unlocks everything in one go. Useful when you're mid-raid and don't have time to click twenty channels.

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