# Chat Mute

This option is made to focus your community solely on an ongoing raid. \
To prevent them being distracted by any ongoing conversation, It will mute the chat for normal users.\
They cannot write messages until your set target is met.

{% hint style="info" %}
Admins are still free to speak, so they can still help engaging people to join the raid.
{% endhint %}

* Bring up settings menu according to ["Access Settings UI"](/raid-settings/access-settings-ui.md).
* Turn mute ON or OFF using the toggle switch

This setting is always turned OFF on first install, so people are free to speak until you change this setting.

{% hint style="info" %}
While Chat is muted, the bot will display notifications that the "🔒Chat is LOCKED till target is reached 🔒" within the initial raid message. In addition is will display this information within [live notifications](/how-to-raid/live-notifications.md).
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="danger" %}
Use this setting with caution. The main purpose of RaidSharksBot is to engage, not to block.\
\
Using this mute function without making sure your target is met quickly and somebody is supervising the chat can end up in people feeling demotivated. Furthermore, new users are not able to ask questions if the chat is muted.
{% endhint %}


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