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chore: reword how to set Discord permissions slightly, to be less confusing #245

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Expand Up @@ -83,10 +83,6 @@ This application logs in as a Discord bot to get a presence on Discord.
You have to create this bot yourself, by going to https://discord.com/developers/ and registering one.
The Discord token can be found under `Bot`.

After creating a bot, you need to invite this bot to your Discord channel.
If you are not the owner of that channel, you would need to make the bot `Public` before the admin can add it.
The bot needs at least `Send Messages`, `Read Messages` and `Manage Webhooks` permissions to operate in a channel.

Additionally, the bot uses the following intents:
- `messages`: to read messages.
- `guilds`: to read channel information.
Expand All @@ -97,6 +93,11 @@ Additionally, the bot uses the following intents:
Some of these intents need additional permission on the bot's side, under `Privileged Gateway Intents`.
Without those, this application will fail to start.

After creating a bot, you need to invite this bot to your Discord channel.
If you are not the owner of that channel, you would need to make the bot `Public` before the admin can add it.
The bot needs at least `Send Messages`, `Read Messages` and `Manage Webhooks` permissions on the Discord server channel.
These permissions need to be assigned on the Discord server itself, by someone with sufficient permissions to do so.

### IRC Puppet IP Range

The more complicated setting in this row is `--irc-puppet-ip-range`, and needs some explaining.
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