Enable Bot to Mute another Member without using the Server Mute

Summary

Bot should be able to “self_mute” or soft mute another user

What is the feature request for?

The core library

The Problem

When a user joins a channel meant for generally quiet time, there is no way to automatically mute them without allowing them to unmute afterward unless they have admin permissions. If there’s a channel that’s meant for more quiet/study times that anyone can join, they can potentially disrupt an ongoing conversation. Utilizing the current mute functionality by the bot is a Server Mute, which would prevent the user from unmuting themselves unless they have proper permissions to do so.

The Ideal Solution

Discord allows server admins and others with the mute permission to mute a user that’s equivalent to a self mute. I’d like for the Member.edit() function to include self_mute/soft_mute and self_deafen/soft_deafen to be new options to facilitate this. This will allow the user to unmute themselves in the normal fashion, which will require a deliberate action on their part, thereby reducing the disruption/interruption on a fresh join.

The Current Solution

There really isn’t one at the moment, save manually muting people. But the reaction time of humans is much slower than that of computers, so it’s basically a moot point.

[Rapptz]

You can’t self-mute another member through the API.

If you want to mute them yourself as a moderator movement then there’s Member.edit. If you want to self-mute or self-deafen the bot for whatever reason there’s Guild.change_voice_state.

Anything else is not possible via the API.

[marpy]

Thanks @Rapptz, you’re right that the API doesn’t enable that, I should have checked there first.

The functionality does exist in the client UI, so I thought it was possible via API. Thanks!