How to create roles in Discord? If you want to know, then check out this tutorial.
In the event that you have a Discord server and want to live the best experiences just for your friends, family, neighbors, among others. You should know that you can customize and create roles in Discord, so that you can create and manage said server, by yourselves.
Although for some, this may sound like a difficult task, the truth is that assigning roles in Discord is actually quite simple. We must also add the fact that the task of managing and moderating no longer hangs on the shoulder of a single person. Since, to be honest, only one person is neither qualified nor available, to be able to look at the server 24 hours a day.
Taking into account all of the above, we took on the task of placing within a simple tutorial on how to create roles in Discord, so that even the newest on the platform can do it.
The roles and general permissions of the server
Before you know how to create roles through Discord, you must know each of the roles and the permissions, which are granted with them, those are the following:
· The administrator
This is the highest position, which can be given to a user, with this the person is given full authority within the Discord server.
server administrators
Within this, one or several specific users are allowed to change the name of the server and its region.
Role administrators
These have the power to create and modify the roles within the server.
channel managers
They are the users, who can create, edit or delete channels within the server.
The emoji managers
These simply have the permission to manage the emoticons.
Webhook administrators
They can add, modify and delete webhooks only.
There are also specific functions, which are given through special permissions, those same in the same way, we are going to detail them here:
Membership permissions
It provides a large list of functions, which range from banning members within the server, creating instant invites, managing nicknames, expelling members.
Text channel permissions
It also has many functions, which range from sending messages in chats, managing messages, inserting links, attaching files, reading message history, mentioning members, using external emojis, among others.
voice channel permissions
For their part, users who have this type of permission have functions such as speaking, muting members, moving members, using voice activity, among others.
Advanced permissions
Within this type of permission, the same functions of the administrator are included, that is, whoever has this permission can do the same as if they were an administrator.
How to create roles in Discord?
If you are already clear about the functions and permissions that are allowed within a Discord server, then you are ready to learn how to create roles on a Discord server, for this you must follow the following steps:
- First you must open your server, if you do not have one, you must create it.
- Then locate the right button that is on the main screen of the server. In that a menu should appear, you should look for the "configuration" option.
- Next you must name the role, in an appropriate way, you must describe the authority that role will have.
- Then touch the sign that will appear at the top right of the page. In this section you can change the title and color of the chosen role.
- In that you must grant the necessary permissions, those in theory is the authority, which you are granting to each profile.
Finally you just have to "save the changes" and that would be it. That way you will have created roles within a Discord server.
How to assign roles to members on Discord?
After being able create roles on Discord, you will surely want to assign them, for this we also leave you a list of steps and that is the following:
- Again you must locate the right button within the server and selecting it, go to the "settings" section.
- In that, a menu should appear on the left side, with which you must "choose members", in the user administration.
- You will be able to visualize a list, where all the members of the server are added, you must click on the sign that is next to the user's name.
- In that a drop-down menu should appear, where you can select the role you want to assign to each member.
- You will notice that each user will change color, according to the configuration you have added, then you just have to click "save" and that's it.
Likewise, you will have already assigned the roles within Discord.
Ways to Manage Created Roles in Discord
After having created and assigned roles within Discord, you will surely want to manage them. This function is not very different from the previous ones.
In this you should know that when the server is full, you can create more roles and modify the ones you already had. One of the fastest and easiest ways to manage such a full server is to allow all members to be “everyone” then adjust permissions accordingly. This will cause that after each user arrives to enter the server, the common function will be assigned.
In addition, that later you can easily identify the roles assigned to each user, this by the colors that identify them, among moderators and administrators, or if there are also other roles, that you have created.
How to do if I want to delete roles in Discord?
This is also a function, which turns out to be quite easy to implement, for it you just have to do the following:
- Again locate the right mouse button and click.
- In that you will see a list of server configurations. Select the roles and from the roles window, click on the one you want to delete.
- At the bottom of the screen, you will see the “delete role” button, press it and click “ok” to confirm.
That's it! That way you will have been able remove roles on Discord.
We hope that you have found this tutorial interesting and that with it you have learned everything about Discord roles, from how to create it, to how to delete them.