Automated discord spam moderation with AI and human-in-the-loop
Ready for 3.0Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.
What this workflow does
This AI workflow has 23 nodes and runs on a schedule (every hour) (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Discord and OpenAI Chat Model.
How it runs
Trigger: On a schedule (every hour) (plus 1 other trigger).
- Get Recent Messages (Discord): get many (message)
- Notify Moderators with Send & Wait (Discord): send and wait for a reply (message)
- Only Once (Remove Duplicates): removes duplicate items
- Receive Instructions (Switch): routes items into 3 branches
- Group By User (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Get Message IDs (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
- Warn User Only (Discord): work with message
- Split Out: splits a list into separate items
- Delete Messages (Discord): delete message
- For Each User... (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
…plus 9 more steps. See the full node list below.
Services it uses
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.
Nodes used (16)
- Text Classifier
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.textClassifier - Discord
n8n-nodes-base.discord - Remove Duplicates
n8n-nodes-base.removeDuplicates - OpenAI Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi - Code
n8n-nodes-base.code - Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)
n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches - Split Out
n8n-nodes-base.splitOut - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Merge
n8n-nodes-base.merge - Filter
n8n-nodes-base.filter - If
n8n-nodes-base.if - Switch
n8n-nodes-base.switch - Execute Sub-workflow
n8n-nodes-base.executeWorkflow - Execute Workflow Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.executeWorkflowTrigger - No Operation, do nothing
n8n-nodes-base.noOp - Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
From the author
This n8n template demonstrates how you can automate community moderation using human-in-the-loop functionality for Discord. The use-case is for detecting and dealing with spam messages in a predefined and consistent way. Human-in-the-loop allows for a balance…