Server Setup

Mentorbot relies upon server roles for much of its functioning. Mentoring topics are stored as roles, which are assigned to mentors to give them permission to use mentoring commands.

For example, sending $maketopic Calculus as an administrator creates a new role Topic | Calculus. All users can then queue for that topic by sending $queue Calculus. Administrators and those with the Topic | Calculus role (mentors) can then call $ready Calculus to retrieve members from that queue. While administrators have access to all mentor commands, giving administrator privileges to all mentors is a security risk that should be avoided.