Discord glossary
Role hierarchy
The order of roles in Server Settings, which decides who can manage whom.
A member can only kick, ban, time out, or assign roles to members whose highest role is below their own. Bots follow the same rule, so a bot’s role must sit above the roles it manages.
Related terms
- Role
- A named set of permissions and a color that can be given to members.
- Administrator
- A permission that grants every other permission and ignores channel overrides.