Adding Rick to your Discord community? This topic guides you through the process.
Activation
[!warning] For Rick to work, his highest-ranking role needs the custom color below for aesthetics. Without this dot
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commands won’t work.
The best practice for this, is to change his default “Rick” role color to the required color.
Alternatively, create a new role with the required color, and assign it to Rick. Make sure to drag the role above the default Rick role.
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If you have a complex role hierarchy and are experienced with permission structures, you can also make a cosmetic role (without any permissions). Make sure that this is the highest ranking role you assign to Rick. This makes it easier if you already have a complex role configured for other bots in your server.
Invite Rick
Required permissions
Rick needs the following permissions for the channels where you want him to be, to work properly.
- View Channel
- Send Messages
- Read Message History
- Manage Messages (to clean up commands and rate-limit notices)
- Embed Links
- Add reactions
- Use External Emojis
- Member roles you want to give access to
/commands
need “Use Application Commands” - Create Public Threads & Send Messages in Threads (optional, in most servers this is not needed).
[!danger] Never give third-party bots Administrator rights, including Rick!
To disable Rick in a channel, remove read/send permissions from the desired channel. Note: this will also stop tracking tokens that your members check.
Add BurpBoard feed
To add a leaderboard to your server, read this item.
For the Telegram version, just join @BurpBoard
The leaderboard is automated and unvetted, even though most scams are filtered, it would be good to add a DYOR warning your channel description.
Updates
- Posted in rick-updates
- @RickBurpBotNews
- Twitter/X
- Rick’s Lab