#Discord: slower response without @mention despite requireMention: false

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ancient minnow
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What I'm trying to do:
In a Discord guild channel with only me and the bot, I want the bot to respond equally fast whether I @mention it or not. The channel has requireMention: false set.

What's happening instead:
Messages without @mention get a noticeably slower response than messages with @mention. It feels like Discord delivers the message event to the bot faster when it contains an @mention.

Config (relevant parts):
json
"guilds": {
"GUILD_ID": {
"requireMention": true,
"channels": {
"CHANNEL_ID": {
"requireMention": false,
"enabled": true
}
}
}
},
"messages": {
"inbound": {
"debounceMs": 0,
"byChannel": { "discord": 0 }
}
}

What I've tried:
Set messages.inbound.debounceMs to 0 (disabled) — no change,
Set messages.inbound.byChannel.discord to 0 — no change,
Gateway restart after each config change,
Analyzed gateway logs: inbound → queue delay is ~120-200ms for both mention and non-mention messages. The processing on OpenClaw's side is identical.,

Hypothesis:
The delay seems to happen before OpenClaw receives the message — possibly Discord's gateway delivering @mention events faster than regular message events.

Setup:
OpenClaw 2026.5.4,
Discord channel (guild), single bot + single user,
GLM-5.1 model,

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ancient minnow
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nobody has the same problem? 😅

cerulean girder
# ancient minnow What I'm trying to do: In a Discord guild channel with only me and the bot, I wa...

Got it you’re seeing faster responses when the bot is @mentioned, even though you’ve disabled mention requirements, which usually points to how Discord prioritizes or dispatches events rather than anything in your bot logic. I’ve run into similar timing quirks with gateway delivery and intent handling before, and there are a couple of subtle things that can cause exactly this behavior. If you’re open, I can take a closer look at how your events are being received and pinpoint where that delay is creeping in.
@ancient minnow

atomic fable
smoky raven
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perhaps not useful, but I notice when I @mention I see the "agent is typing..." indicator almost immediately where as when I do not @mention I only see it very briefly before the output appears. Doing very limited testing, I am getting the same output latency with and without the @mention, despite the typing indication difference.

ancient minnow
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if you open Gateway mission control with that discord session, you can see it taking a while to be send without @mention but it gets send immediately when doing so

vernal jungle