I’ve checked my bot permissions and it has administrator rights. The bot can ban individual users without problems, but this bulk operation fails. What am I missing here? Do I need to add specific permission checks or handle the banning process differently for multiple users?
This is probably due to rate limiting mixed with async issues. When you spam member.ban() on multiple users at once, Discord’s API throttles your requests and starts throwing permission errors. I faced the same issue while building a moderation bot last year. You need to implement proper async/await handling with delays between each ban. Consider wrapping your ban call in a setTimeout or using await with a small delay. Additionally, ensure you’re not attempting to ban the bot itself or users with higher roles than the bot, as this can cause permission errors due to role hierarchy.
yeah, i had the same issue! your foreach isn’t waiting for the ban promises to complete, which overloads discord’s api and leads to those errors. try using a for loop with await like this: for (const member of msg.guild.members.cache.values()) { await member.ban(); } don’t forget to add delays too!
Your code has a permission hierarchy problem that trips up a lot of people. Discord bots can’t ban members who have roles higher than the bot’s highest role - doesn’t matter if the bot has admin permissions. When your forEach hits these users, it throws permission errors that mess up the whole operation. I ran into this exact issue when I built something similar. You need to filter out the server owner, other bots with higher roles, and anyone whose highest role is above your bot’s position. Some servers also have built-in protections against mass moderation actions. Filter your member collection first to only include users your bot can actually ban, then handle the banning with proper error handling for each individual member instead of using a blanket try-catch.