Reaction roles & colour roles

Last updated: 11 October 2026

What it does

Staff set up panels: messages where members react with an emoji to pick up a role, like a colour, a game, or "ping me for events".

• React to get the role. Remove your reaction to lose it.
• Colour roles are one at a time: picking a new colour swaps out your old one (and its reaction).
• A colour's emoji is a colored ember: Liora's own gem in that colour. It is one of her own emojis, so it takes none of the server's emoji slots.
• If Liora was offline when you reacted, she catches up when she's back and gives you the role.

Role menus

Some servers use role menus instead: one message with a button for each kind of role (a rank, a game, the pings you want).

• Tap a button and Liora opens a dropdown that only you can see, with the roles you already have ticked.
• Tick a role to get it, untick it to lose it. Each change happens the moment you pick.
• Some menus are one at a time, like a rank or "DMs Open" and "DMs Closed": picking one swaps out the other, and "None of these" takes it off.
• The server's Reaction Roles switch turns role menus off too.
• If a role is on a reaction panel as well, unticking it in a menu also takes your reaction off that panel, so the two always agree.
• Staff build them on the dashboard's Role Menus page (it needs Manage Server, like the rest of the dashboard): a title, a few words and a button for each kind of role, with ready-made menus to start from, like continents, time zones, languages, star signs, interests and pings. Every choice can wear one of Liora's own gold icons.
• Liora makes the roles a menu still needs. A role she makes has no permissions at all, and a role that already has that name is used as it is instead of being made twice.
• A card can be changed in place, or posted again as a new message (so Discord doesn't mark it "edited"); the old message is then taken down. Removing a card deletes its message. The roles stay, and members keep what they picked.
• Posting, changing or removing a card on the dashboard is noted in the server's security log, with who did it.
• Staff tools: !colorroles, !synccolors, !elevatecolors and !syncreactions (all need Manage Roles, or one of Liora's own admins) keep colour roles tidy and hand out roles people reacted for earlier. They're also buttons on the dashboard.

Kept safe

• Never staff powers. Roles members pick up themselves never carry staff powers, like Administrator, Manage Server, Manage Roles, Ban, Kick or Timeout. If one gets linked to a panel by mistake, Liora refuses to hand it out and says why. The same rule applies to the Role Shop. Staff can still give such roles by hand.
• Muted members can't pick up roles by reacting, or from a role menu, while they're muted.
• Liora can only hand out roles below her own in the server's role list. If she can't, she says so for a moment in the channel.
• The Role Menus page checks all of this before anything is made: it won't put a role with staff powers, a bot's own role, @everyone or a role above Liora's on a card, and it says which one and why.

What she keeps

Liora keeps nothing about who reacted or picked what, and nothing about who built a card. Your reactions and roles live in Discord itself, and removing your reaction (or unticking a role) removes the role.