Raid of 16 June

The Raid of 16 June was a bot raid between approximately 04:30 PST and 14:04 PST on 16 June 2019 that played a major role in the second part of the Civil War, as it was the catalyst for the enabling of Dyno's censor on bad words. The raid can be divided into two halves, the first wave taking place for 6 minutes between 04:39 and 04:45, consisting of 19 pornography bots, and the second wave between 13:31 and 14:04 PST consisting of 9 pornography bots. A 29th ban was issued in between the two waves at 07:36 PST.

Each resulted in mass bannings that had to be carried out manually due to the amount of common prefixes that were shared between bots, thereby hampering moderation, and caused a large amount of alarm on the server, with some users questioning if they had been leftover bots from 14 June.

Investigatory findings:
The raid followed the same modus operandi, with most pornography bots first joining the server, before posting links that likely led to malicious websites, accompanied by a text message filled with emojis. At this point, they were often banned by the moderators, instead of being banned in massive waves, leading to the elongation of the raid over several hours, and damaging Midnighter morale.

Additionally, Defence Bot had not yet been properly set-up, meaning that the raiders were free to spam with impunity until stopped manually by a moderator. Further complications were produced when moderators used bots to ban users instead of banning manually, leaving legacy messages from the pornography bots across multiple channels, which then had to be purged manually.

An investigation was later launched that determined that the source of the bots was likely through an online Discord advertising server list known as DISBOARD, on which the bots had used a scraper to target specific servers.