🌸 KindBot - Spread Kindness in Your Discord Community

KindBot helps Discord communities build a culture of appreciation, positivity, and kindness. With slash commands, daily prompts, a moderated community journal, challenges, badges, and a web dashboard, it makes it easy to recognize and celebrate the good in your community.

✨ Key Features

💖 Kudos & Recognition

• Give kudos to a member with /kudos, with an optional personal note (up to 500 characters; links, mentions, and inappropriate language are not allowed)
• Add a recipient-specific message with the template option: Teamwork, Creativity, Support, Leadership, Humor, or Helpfulness
• Daily limits keep recognition thoughtful: by default each person can give 5 and receive 5 kudos per day
• Celebrate someone with /celebrate and an optional reason
• Send a virtual hug with /hug, or a compliment with /compliment
• Check your profile (or someone else's) with /profile: total kudos, kudos given and received, activity streak, check-ins, challenges completed, journal activity, your top badges, and your Conscherry account level when your Discord is linked

📖 Community Journal

• Share what you are grateful for with /appreciate (3-500 characters). Use the secret option to post anonymously
• Entries are moderated before they appear publicly
• Browse random approved entries with /journal view
• Search approved entries with /journal search by keyword, with optional username and result limit
• Moderators can review with /journal pending, /journal approve, and /journal delete
• React to an entry with /react using 💚, 🎉, 🙌, ✨, or 🌟, picking the entry by its code (like K0001) or by its author

📅 Daily Kindness Prompts

• In your DMs: run /dailyprompt in a DM with KindBot to turn prompts on or off, choose a delivery time (24-hour, defaults to 09:00) and timezone, or get a prompt right now
• In your server: members with Manage Server can set a channel with /dailyprompt action:set channel:#channel, turn it off, or send a prompt now
• Prompts come from Conscherry's acts-of-kindness library

🔥 Activity Streaks

• Track consecutive days of using KindBot with /streaks
• See your own streak, someone else's with the user option, or the top streaks leaderboard (up to 50) when no user is given
• People who turn off "Show in Leaderboards" in /settings are left off the leaderboard

🎲 Kindness & Inspiration

• A random act of kindness to try today with /actofkindness
• /affirm or /affirmation for a positive affirmation
• /kindnesstips for a practical kindness tip
• /selfcare for a practical self-care tip
• /mantra for a motivational mantra
• /breathe for a short breathing exercise (about 30-60 seconds)
• /inspiration picks one of those for you. Choose a type (act of kindness, affirmation, breathing exercise, kindness tip, mantra, or self-care tip) or let it surprise you
• Share and browse community quotes and advice with /wisdom, optionally anonymously

🏅 Challenges & Badges

• Join kindness challenges with /challenge: view active challenges, see your progress, join, log progress on self-reported challenges, or leave
• Earn badges for KindBot activity milestones and for completing challenges
• See the badges you have earned, what is left to earn, and how close you are with /badges
• Badge art matches what you see on conscherry.com

🤝 Social

• Review your activity with /recap for this week, this month, or all time (other people's recaps are shown only if they are public)
• Share a suggestion anonymously with /suggest
• Learn about The Share Kindness Project with /tskp

🧘 Wellness & Support

• Quick, private mood check-ins with /checkup (Great, Good, Okay, Struggling, or Not good, plus an optional note up to 200 characters)
• Find crisis, mental health, self-care, and community resources with /resources
• Moderators can review and follow up on flagged check-ins with /checkupalerts

⚙️ Personalization & Privacy

• /settings controls notifications (kudos, reactions, challenges), privacy (profile privacy and showing in leaderboards), and whether you join new challenges automatically
• Private profiles are only visible to their owner

🖥️ Dashboard

• Open the KindBot dashboard with /dashboard (dash.conscherry.com) to manage settings and view analytics for your server
• Server owners and members with Manage Server can see who has dashboard team access with /teamaccess

📰 News

• Server admins with Manage Server can choose where KindBot posts news and challenge announcements with /newschannel

💬 Additional Commands

• /help for command help and error code lookup
• /info for information about the project
• /invite to invite KindBot to your server or DMs
• /support to join the support server

🛠️ Easy Setup

1. Invite KindBot to your Discord server
2. Set a daily prompt channel with /dailyprompt action:set channel:#general
3. Optionally subscribe to news with /newschannel action:set channel:#announcements
4. Start using /kudos, /appreciate, and /journal view
5. Track progress with /profile, /streaks, and /badges

Admin & Configuration

• /dailyprompt and /newschannel need the Manage Server permission
• Journal moderation and check-in alerts are limited to moderators. Moderators are added through KindBot's dashboard Team Access or the bot's approver list
• A few developer-only commands are restricted to the KindBot team

🌟 Use Cases

Community Servers: Build a positive culture and recognize helpful members Support Servers: Show appreciation for volunteers and helpful community members Gaming Communities: Celebrate good sportsmanship and teamwork Educational Servers: Encourage peer recognition and positive feedback Any Server: Spread kindness and build stronger connections

📝 Command Examples

Recognition & Appreciation:

• /kudos user:@user message:Thanks for helping! - Give kudos to a member
• /kudos user:@user template:teamwork - Give kudos with a teamwork message
• /celebrate user:@user reason:Finished their first week! - Celebrate someone
• /appreciate message:I love this community - Submit to the journal
• /journal view - View random appreciations
• /journal search query:thanks - Search the journal
• /react emoji:💚 user:@JohnDoe - React to someone's latest journal entry

Tracking & Progress:

• /profile - View your profile and stats
• /streaks - See the activity streak leaderboard
• /badges - View your badges and what is left to earn
• /recap period:week - View your weekly activity summary

Challenges & Wellness:

• /challenge action:view - See active challenges
• /checkup mood:good - Log your mood
• /resources category:mental - Find mental health resources
• /breathe - Try a breathing exercise

Inspiration:

• /inspiration type:actofkindness - Get a random act of kindness
• /wisdom action:browse - Browse community wisdom

Customization:

• /settings category:privacy - Manage privacy settings
• /dailyprompt action:set time:08:00 timezone:America/New_York - Get prompts in your DMs (run in a DM with KindBot)

Admin Setup:

• /dailyprompt action:set channel:#general - Set up server daily prompts
• /newschannel action:set channel:#announcements - Subscribe to bot news

💬 Support

Need help or have suggestions? Use /support to join the support server or /suggest to send an anonymous suggestion.

Start spreading kindness today with KindBot! 🌸