Deleted tens of thousands of my messages and also have used ripcord for a long time and my account is fine, so it's either completely random or you did something else? Did discord explain the reason at all in an email or something

I am a maintainer of another deletion tool and have had one of my own testing accounts banned today - the first in two or three years I've been working on it.

I suspect Discord are cracking down on self-botting. I will be adding more warnings to my tool and I strongly suggest some warnings are added to this tool also.

If you're a user, you should back up anything you don't want to lose. I doubt Discord will accept appeals.

I added a warning to the README, and added a link to this thread. This issue is also pinned.
I will also add a warning inside the UI later (I just don't have time to change the HTML+CSS right now).

Nice one.

One way to get around the self-botting rules may be to automate actions such as clicks and keypresses via the Discord client so that it looks legitimate.

What I will probably aim to find out is the heuristics Discord are using on the backend to detect self-botting. I hope they are using a simple set of rules rather than some black box machine learning. Some ideas:

• Detection of high volume of requests or 429s
• Detection of hitting specific endpoint too often
• Detection of requests without corresponding /science requests (telemetry endpoint)
• Detection of requests without specific headers

I'll let you know if I find anything.

Seems to work fine in small message amounts even on fresh account so not sure what specifically is causing it. Are there any specific guidelines on using it and not having your account removed? Is it just to use it normally and not DM/use other discord clients

I believe what causes your account to get removed is not the deleting itself, but doing mass deleting and then doing any of the following actions:

(1) New friend requests
(2) Sending messages
(3) Joining servers

The reason is that Discord's automated system is trying to crack down on automated accounts that add people as friends or join servers and then send spam, scams, and other automated junk to them. So I think mass deleting lowers your "account reputation," and results in your account being noted as engaged in self-botting, but it really only triggers the anti-spam system/suspension in those 3 cases. So I would advise if you're mass deleting, do not send anyone DMs, and do not add anyone as friends or join any servers. Only delete, and then wait maybe a couple days before doing anything else so your account reputation can reset. This is just speculation though.

I am a maintainer of another deletion tool and have had one of my own testing accounts banned today - the first in two or three years I've been working on it.

I suspect Discord are cracking down on self-botting. I will be adding more warnings to my tool and I strongly suggest some warnings are added to this tool also.

If you're a user, you should back up anything you don't want to lose. I doubt Discord will accept appeals.

I got suspended and i wasn't even using the bot, just deleting manually. Very strange

I got suspended and i wasn't even using the bot, just deleting manually. Very strange

That's even worse.

Were the affected accounts by any chance unverified Discord accounts? Because I am aware of some Anti-Spam system that kicks in easily on unverified ones in certain situations, forcing you to provide email or phone number to continue.

My account was verified. I had run into the anti-spam system unintentionally before, because I asked a similar question in two servers, and then joined a new one, after which it made me give a phone number.

Just found this, seems to be pretty clear:
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-Automated-user-accounts-self-bots-

Automating normal user accounts (generally called "self-bots") outside of the OAuth2/bot API is forbidden, and can result in an account termination if found.

Any update on any of this? Not sure I want to have my account banned for deleting messages. If it happens in the middle of it then you can't really remove the rest. I'm not really sure what makes it incredibly noticeable, is it just a large volume is suspicious? Stretching the limits of the discord API or whatever.

I think the very minimum you can do (while keep using it) is not to stress the API additionally. Which means don't look into other channels, don't send messages, don't send friend requests, etc. while the script is doing it's job. Optionally changing the delay can be done but that is up to you.

I was able to run this a few days ago, and haven't been banned yet. But I modified it to be much less brutal on the API.

I changed the "baseDeleteDelay" variable to 700 on line 151.
And I added a random number between 1 and 100 to the delete delay on line 335.

I did this because I found that a baseDeleteDelay (and no random number) of 750 was the sweet spot for never getting rate limited. Dropping it to 700 and adding the rand of 1 to 100 should give me an average of 750, but make it look (slightly) less automated.

I deleted approx 35000 messages in a single DM over about 10 hours.

Exchange the wait function line with the following:
const wait = async ms => new Promise(done => setTimeout(done, ms+getRandomIntInclusive(MIN_VALUE,MAX_VALUE))); and add the right value, pretty easy to figure out.
Also add the random function to the bottom

function getRandomIntInclusive(min, max) {
  min = Math.ceil(min);
  max = Math.floor(max);
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1) + min); //The maximum is inclusive and the minimum is inclusive
}

200 ms search delay and 2000 ms delete delay is the sweet spot for me, otherwise I get rate limited.

Edit: This can cause some bots to crash and raise complaints, I suggest to increase both delays.

Exchange the wait function line with the following:
const wait = async ms => new Promise(done => setTimeout(done, ms+getRandomIntInclusive(MIN_VALUE,MAX_VALUE))); and add the right value, pretty easy to figure out.
Also add the random function to the bottom

function getRandomIntInclusive(min, max) {
  min = Math.ceil(min);
  max = Math.floor(max);
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1) + min); //The maximum is inclusive and the minimum is inclusive
}

Does this stop the recent issue of being rate limited quickly into deleting, using the standard 100ms 1000ms search & import delay? @0xpr03

Does this stop the recent issue of being rate limited quickly into deleting, using the standard 100ms 1000ms search & import delay?

Not really, as you'll have to provide enough min/max delay for that to stop showing but, generally @Eratas values could work, just increase the min if you're having problems.

Is there now any code snippet that i can insert on my script to randomize the delays? or is this updated in the script?

Thank you for this. I need to delete like 3000 (3k) messages, i want to know the best deletion delay because i dont want my personal daily use account to get banned for this. I have a problem from only 1 server.

@cedws did you find anything else?

from what i see redact deletes messages at a rate of 25 messages a minute. this is according to discord tos they say. maybe staying on or under that limit is enough to save your acc