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{"color": 13632027, "image": {"url": "https://i.imgur.com/aTgX0Y9.png"}, "title": "⚠️ Hierarchy is IMPORTANT! ⚠️", "fields": [{"name": "Keeping safe", "value": "You do not need to put cosmetic roles above staff roles to allow your staff to recolour their names.\n\nIf you keep staff roles set to default color, the role has no color, meaning if the user then had a role below the staff role which has a color set on it, that will be the color the users name uses.", "inline": false}], "description": "It is __**STRONGLY**__ advised to keep cosmetic roles below Staff roles, especially when they can be used by non-staff too.\n\nThe way Discords hierarchy is configured makes it so that the users top most role is their highest position within the hierarchy. Which is why having cosmetic roles above staff roles is dangerous for several reasons.\n\nNot all the reasons will be listed, but here are some of the reasons it is dangerous.\n\n1) if a staff member can hand out roles, but they have a cosmetic role above their staff role, they can now hand out the staff role, as it is below their highest position in the hierarchy, due to the cosmetic role being above it.\n\n2) if a regular user has a cosmetic role that is above the staff role, and the staff user does not have a cosmetic role or their cosmetic role is lower in the hierarchy, the regular user now cannot be moderated as they are now higher in the hierarchy than the staff member.\n\n3) if a regular user some how gains the ability to use role commands, or Manage Roles was accidently enabled for one of their roles, they can now hand out staff roles, either to themself or other users."}

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