Change Your Nickname

To be friendly and respectful to others, we strongly encourage changing your nickname to include your real name and pronouns! Here's guide to changing your server nickname.

Once you're in our Discord with your nickname set, head into the #welcome channel to get started!

Set Your Ideology

Start by setting your ideology. React to the very first message in #welcome with a white, blue, purple, or red heart to publicize your ideology to other members! Your name will change colors to match your ideology.

Join Committees!

The second message in #welcome unlocks the power of committees! Add yourself to as many committees as you want, and you'll gain access to that committee's text chat and voice/video hangout. 

Set Your Year

React to the third message in #welcome if you want to share your year with others. 

Introduce Yourself

Head over to the #introductions-and-social to introduce yourself! 

You can find a detailed set of rules in the Discord section of our club code. 

Please be respectful of members and use each channel for its intended use. If you do that, you'll be fine!

Customize Your Notifications

For each channel, you can customize whether or not you'll receive alerts for new messages. If you want to be involved but don't want a specific channel (like #media-updates) to bother you, you can mute it! If you just want to stay updated, but not be bothered by memes and discussions, you can mute everything but #announcements and #general.

Here's a guide to how to change notification settings for channels.

Markdown Formatting

Discord supports markdown, so you can enhance your messages with formatting. Please, use this to communicate more effectively, not to be annoying.

Format your text like this:

*italics* → italics

**bold** → bold

***bold italics*** → bold italics

__underline__ → underline

__*underline italics*__ → underline italics

__**underline bold**__ → underline bold

__***underline bold italics***__ → underline bold italics

 ~~strikethrough~~ → strikethrough

You can also create block quotes:

">" plus a space will turn the next line into a block quote:

line 1 line 1
> quote line → | line 2
line 3 line 3

">>>" plus a space will turn the rest of your message into a block quote:

line 1 line 1
>>> quote line → | quote line
line 3 | line 3
line 4 | line 4