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Staff discipline

Discipline handles misconduct inside the team: internal warnings, blacklist, and automatic sanctions triggered by accumulation.


Click New warning

The form opens.

Point at the target member

The search covers staff members; the Discord ID fills in automatically.

Describe the misconduct

The Reason for the warning field expects a precise description of the facts.

Set an expiry date

Then click Sanction.

The table shows the Member, Reason, Issued by, Date, Status and Actions columns. A warning stays Active until its expiry date, then turns Expired.


The configuration button at the top of the page opens Automation & Sanctions, which defines what happens when a member accumulates warnings.

At a given threshold (in number of warns), you can trigger:

  • Remove roles (Demotion): strips every staff role.
  • Permanent Blacklist: the member is banned from staff by default.

The blacklist cuts off a user’s access to the team entirely: they can no longer be added to staff or apply.

  1. Click Blacklist.
  2. Point at the member to blacklist.
  3. Fill in the Reason for exclusion.
  4. Set a Blacklist end date, or leave it empty for a permanent exclusion.
  5. Click Apply Blacklist.

Each entry carries the Blacklisted badge, its reason and its end date (or the Permanent label). The Remove blacklist button lifts the exclusion.

When nobody is blacklisted, Kotbo shows No user is currently on the staff blacklist.


A blacklisted user cannot be onboarded through the Recruitment module. A failed oral interview separately applies a one-month wait before any new application.