# Raid alerts and lockdown · Sift Mod

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> Join bursts, optional auto-lockdown, and unlocking the server cleanly afterwards.

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# Raid alerts and lockdown

Join bursts, optional auto-lockdown, and unlocking the server cleanly afterwards.

When a lot of accounts join in a short window (six in thirty seconds by default), your mods get a raid alert listing the new accounts. You can tune the numbers in /settings.

## Minimum account age

Raids tend to use fresh accounts. Under Raid protection in /settings, pick an age (1, 3, 7, 14 or 30 days) and what happens to anyone younger. Hold keeps them behind the verify gate, or in a timeout if you don't use the gate, until they're old enough. Kick sends them a DM saying when they're welcome back. Either way your mods get a case with a Let them in button, and it closes by itself once the account is old enough. Members rejoining for an appeal are never held.

## Auto-lockdown

Optional. When a raid trips the alert, auto-lockdown closes your text channels. Agree with your team who runs /lockdown locked:false scope:server once the wave is dealt with, so nobody's left waiting.

## Manual lockdown

/lockdown locked:true scope:channel locks one channel. scope:server locks every text channel Sift can manage. Unlocking puts each channel back exactly how it was. No guessing.

## Dynamic slowmode

A lighter touch than lockdown. Turn it on under Raid protection in /settings. Sift bumps slowmode up while messages flood in and eases off once the channel cools down, and it never changes who's allowed to send.

## Content vs structure

Raid tools deal with join spam and channel access. Message spam during a raid still runs into the flood and smart-check rules. More on that under server protection in What Sift catches.

More in this section

-   [Anti-nuke and mass deletes](/docs/guides/anti-nuke-and-mass-deletes)
-   [Restore a nuked server](/docs/guides/restore-a-nuked-server)

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