🔫Gangs

Gangs turn a Discord role into a faction with named leaders and a roster. Leaders add and remove their own members in Discord, members can walk out on their own, and anyone who loses a gang role sits out a cooldown before another gang can take them.

#How it works

A gang is a Discord role, one or more leaders, and a member roster. Staff create the gang and appoint the first leader; from then on the leader runs the roster with /gang add and /gang remove, a member can leave with /gang leave, and FiveUnity keeps the Discord role in step.

Four rules are enforced everywhere:

• A member can belong to one gang at a time. This holds for leaders too: /gang-admin add-leader refuses anyone already on another gang's roster.
• A gang must keep at least one leader.
• Only staff change leadership. A leader cannot leave their own gang, and /gang remove cannot reach another leader.
• A Discord role can only be registered as one gang, and gang names must be unique.

Each gang can also have a member limit. Once it is full, new adds are refused unless a configured bypass role raises the cap: when the recruit or anyone already on the roster holds a bypass role, the gang's effective cap becomes the base limit plus its extra bypass slots, and anyone may fill those seats.

#Create a gang

Fill in Create gang and press Create gang. Creating your first gang switches the gangs module on.

#The Gangs list

Each gang shows its member count, its strike count when it has any, the faction role, and the leaders. Rosters longer than ten members collapse behind a Members button.

Mass add reports how many were added and how many were skipped, with the reason for each: already in another gang, not in the server, and so on.

#Member limit

The member limit applies per gang to every new roster seat, including leaders and mass-adds. Existing members stay even if the limit is later lowered. 0 means unlimited, up to a maximum of 10,000.

#Role cooldowns

When a member loses their gang role (removed by a leader, removed by staff, left of their own accord with /gang leave, or the role taken off by hand in Discord) they are dropped from the roster and put on a cooldown. While it runs, no gang can add them.

Active cooldowns are listed underneath with the member, when it expires, and why it was set. Admin mass-add always bypasses the cooldown and says so in the log.

#Module defaults

The Modules page carries the gang-wide settings, under Gangs.

See Modules and utilities.

#In Discord

#For leaders and members

gang is only needed when you lead more than one (or, for leave, if you somehow belong to more than one), and it autocompletes. Replies are only visible to you.

/gang list answers with the three things a leader needs before the next roster move: the roster in join order with the leaders marked 👑 and the count against the member cap, the strike history newest first (strikes expire 30 days after they are issued), and the leave cooldowns this gang's own removals started, so a leader can see when a kicked member may be taken back. Long sections summarize with ...and N more rather than failing.

#Leaving a gang

/gang leave is the member's own exit. It shows what leaving costs, and nothing happens until the member presses Leave gang:

• The faction role comes off and they are dropped from the roster.
• The same leave cooldown a kick applies starts, so leaving is not a way around it. Only staff can clear it early with /gang-admin reset-cooldown.
• The gang log records it as Gang member left, so staff can tell a walk-out from a kick.

A leader is refused with a note to ask staff for /gang-admin remove-leader first. That keeps the rule that a gang always has a leader, and stops a leader dissolving their own command by walking out. The same rule blocks /gang remove from reaching a fellow leader, so one leader cannot take a gang by kicking the other out.

#When a member leaves Discord

Someone who leaves the server is taken off every gang roster they were on, and the gang log records it. No cooldown is applied: leaving Discord is not a gang action, and a member who is kicked or leaves for unrelated reasons should not come back barred from every gang. A sole leader keeps their seat on record, because a gang cannot be left leaderless.

Staff can also clear the seat of someone who has already gone, by passing them to /gang-admin remove user: (or Remove on the dashboard). There is no role to take off in that case, only the record.

#For staff

#Strikes

Strikes are a disciplinary record against a gang, not against a member.

Strikes expire automatically after 30 days. Live strike counts appear on the Gangs page as a badge, in full on Dashboard → Safety → Staff, and on the gang itself through /gang list for its leader, all read-only: issuing and clearing strikes stays in Discord.

#What gets logged

Everything below is posted to the gangs Log channel:

• Gang created, gang deleted, gang role updated
• Gang leader added, gang leader removed
• Gang member added, including whether the cooldown was bypassed or the member cap was boosted by a bypass role
• Gang member removed, with who did it and when the cooldown ends, or Role removed in Discord (outside the bot) when the role was pulled by hand
• Gang member left, when the member ran /gang leave themselves
• Gang member left the server, when they left Discord and were taken off the roster
• Gang cooldown reset, with who reset it

Strikes go to your staff log instead, so disciplinary history stays with the rest of your moderation record.

#Tips

#Related

• Departments
• Staff
• Modules and utilities
• Permissions
• Roles