Denying "Read Messages" Permission doesn't hide channel if granted with a role other than everyone about discord-api-docs

[khazhyk]

Can confirm. This seems like a bug. If you deny to an individual person, it overrides groups, but if you grant read to any group, no other group deny overrides it, regardless of order.

[meew0]

It's always been this way though - user-specific overrides are more important than role-specific ones and allows are more important than denies.

[TobiTenno]

Except if a higher role that a user has is denied viewing, shouldn't it be the same as if no role has viewing privs?

[jhgg]

I can't replicate this.

On wew's client:

[khazhyk]

@jhgg Give a group that isn't everyone deny, then give a different group allow, and add someone to both groups. Regardless of the order of Deny group and the Allow group, the allow trumps the deny. But meew0 is saying this was known, so I guess it's not a bug, but a limitation.

[TobiTenno]

@jhgg something like:

Channel setup

User roles and channels before adding the "hide" role

After adding role

Feel free to join the server and i can show you: https://discord.gg/54u5paA

[TobiTenno]

To lay it out more:

1. Add a channel
2. Restrict everyone from seeing it
3. Add a role "member" that is allowed to see/send messages
4. Add a role "hide-channel" that is not allowed any permissions in that channel, and is above "member"
5. Add both of these roles to a user
6. The user will still be able to see the channel, and see mentions

[vishnevskiy]

Hierarchy has never had an effect on permission overwrites.

[TobiTenno]

Why? Is revoking the position for a role not the same as users without the permission?