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title: "Moderating a Community - Help Desk - mssgs"
description: "Kick and ban members, remove messages, handle reports and look after your community settings."
canonical: https://mss.gs/en/help/communities/moderation
language: en
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# Moderating a Community

Kick and ban members, remove messages, handle reports and look after your community settings.

## Server Settings

Hold the community's icon and choose **Server Settings**:

- **General**: the name (you can change it once a month), the icon, a join message and the channel new members land in.

- **Invites** and **User Policy**: see [Inviting People](https://mss.gs/en/help/communities/invites).

- **User Groups**: see [Roles & Permissions](https://mss.gs/en/help/communities/roles-permissions).

- **Custom Emojis**, **Triggers**, **Bans** and **Owners**.

*Server Settings: everything about your community in one list.*

## Dealing with a member

Open the members list and hold the person:

- **Kick** removes them. They can come back with a new invite.

- **Ban** removes them for good, with an optional reason. **Also ban their IP address** makes a new account harder.

- Lift a ban later under **Server Settings → Bans**.

Members with **Delete Messages** can delete anyone's message from its options sheet.

## Reports

When a member reports a message, the mssgs moderation team reviews it, not the community owner. Anyone can also report a whole community by holding its icon and choosing **Report Community**.

## On the desktop app

A few admin tools are only in the [desktop app](https://mss.gs/en/downloads): uploading custom emoji, creating triggers and webhooks, adding co-owners and the audit log of who changed what.

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