# Server Lockdown — Sylon

> Shut the door mid-raid. Pause invites, raise verification and slow every channel at once — with a timer that lifts it all for you.

Canonical page: https://sylon.app/features/server-lockdown

## Overview

Every other protection here judges something that has already happened: a message that was sent, a channel that was deleted, an account that already joined. A lockdown is the one control that acts before any of that — it stops new people arriving at all. That matters because the expensive part of a raid is not the first ten accounts, it is the two hundred behind them, and the window in which a moderator is awake and deciding what to do is exactly when the door should already be shut.

## How it works

1. **One command pulls every lever Discord gives a bot** — Invites are paused, the verification level is raised so new and unverified accounts cannot talk, and — if you ask for it — a slowmode goes across every channel that can take one. That is the complete set: Discord offers a bot nothing else that closes a server.
2. **Everything is written down before it is changed** — What the server looked like first — whether invites were already paused, the verification level somebody had tuned, each channel's own slowmode — is recorded before a single setting moves. Lifting restores from that record rather than from defaults, which is the difference between undoing a lockdown and quietly erasing months of configuration.
3. **It lifts itself** — Give it a number of minutes and the lockdown ends on its own. A server locked at three in the morning by the one moderator who was awake otherwise stays locked until they wake up, and a locked server is one nobody can join — including the people you actually want.
4. **Slowmode never loosens anything** — A channel that already had a stricter slowmode is left exactly as it was and is not recorded, so lifting the lockdown cannot relax a setting the lockdown never made. This is the failure that turns an emergency tool into a liability, and it is ruled out rather than watched for.

## Key capabilities

- Pause invites so nobody new can join, in one command
- Raise the verification level to keep new accounts from talking
- Apply a slowmode across every channel at once, or on its own without locking
- An automatic timer, so a lockdown started at 3am does not last until noon
- Full restore from a record of what the server looked like before
- Invites that were already paused stay paused when the lockdown lifts
- Status at a glance: who locked it, why, and when it lifts
- Every lock and lift written to the log with the person behind it

## Frequently asked questions

### What happens to the members already in the server?
Nothing is taken from them. A lockdown is about arrivals, not about the people already inside — nobody is kicked, nobody loses a role. The verification level can stop very new accounts from talking, which is the point, but everybody established carries on as normal.

### Can I use just the slowmode?
Yes. `/lockdown slowmode 10` puts a ten-second slowmode across every channel without touching invites or verification, which is what you want when a channel is being flooded but the server is not under attack.

### What if I forget to lift it?
Give it a number of minutes when you start it and you cannot forget — it lifts itself. If you started one with no timer, `/lockdown status` will tell you it is still on and who started it.

### Does it undo settings I had configured?
No, and this is the part that took the most care. Lifting restores from what was recorded at the moment of locking, not from Discord's defaults — so a verification level you had tuned, and every per-channel slowmode a moderator set months ago, come back exactly as they were.

## Related features

- https://sylon.app/features/server-guard
- https://sylon.app/features/join-gate
- https://sylon.app/features/moderation

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