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Is automating Discord Quests allowed? The risks, plainly
What Discord's Terms say about automating a user account, what can happen to an account that does it, and questions to ask before you connect one.
By @B3ni15 · Updated · 6 min read
Services that finish Discord Quests for you, Disquest Helper included, all work the same way underneath: they use your account to tell Discord a Quest is progressing, without you sitting through it. That is convenient, and it is also against Discord’s rules. This page sets out what that means in practice, so you can decide with the facts in front of you rather than finding out afterwards.
What Discord’s rules say
Discord’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines don’t allow automating a normal user account. Bots are supposed to use separate bot accounts created through the Developer Portal; a user account is supposed to be driven by a person, through the official apps. Automation on a user account is often called “self-botting”, and finishing Quests from a server falls under it. Quests are also paid for by sponsors who expect a real person to watch or play, which is one more reason Discord takes automated Quest progress seriously.
Nothing about that is changed by how carefully a tool is built. Disquest Helper is unofficial, isn’t endorsed by Discord, and can’t make automation allowed.
What can happen to an account
Discord decides how to respond, case by case and at its own discretion. Possible outcomes include:
- Nothing visible. Many automated accounts are never acted on, but that is not a promise for yours.
- Losing Quest rewards: Quests or rewards being made unavailable to the account.
- A warning or a temporary restriction, sometimes along with a forced password reset.
- A permanent ban, which takes your servers, friends, messages, purchases and Nitro with it.
Discord may also change how it detects automation at any time, so the risk isn’t fixed, and what was quiet last month may not be next month.
Questions to ask yourself first
- What would I lose if this account were banned tomorrow? If the answer is years of messages, servers you moderate or a paid Nitro subscription, the rewards from Quests are unlikely to be worth it.
- Do I trust this service with my token? A token gives full access to the account. Read how the service stores it, and check that you can revoke it. Our token security guide explains what to look for.
- Do I know how to undo it? You should be able to stop runs, delete your data and cut off access whenever you want (see below).
- Would doing them by hand be enough? Many Quests are a three-minute video on your phone. Our guide to how Quests work has tips for fitting them into your day without any tool at all.
What Disquest Helper does and doesn’t do
- It accepts Quests you choose (or new ones automatically, if you turn that on) and reports their progress.
- It never claims rewards, sends messages, joins servers or changes anything else on your account.
- Free accounts show a short link to this site in their custom status while a Quest runs, and your previous status is put back afterwards. While a game Quest runs, friends may see you “Playing” that game; you can switch that off.
- Every run is listed on the dashboard’s History page, so you can see what was done and when.
The full details, including who is responsible for what, are in our Terms of Service.
How to stop at any time
- Cancel a running Quest from the dashboard; it stops at once and your status is restored.
- Remove an account under Accounts, which deletes its stored token.
- Delete your Disquest Helper account in Settings to erase everything we hold about you.
- For a hard cut-off that doesn’t depend on us, change your Discord password: that invalidates every token, ours included.
If you have questions about any of this, get in touch. We would rather you ask before connecting an account than regret it afterwards.