diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/alert.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/alert.ts
index c5fcd4b3..65456218 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/alert.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/alert.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import { automodAction } from "../helpers";
 
 const configSchema = z.object({
   channel: zSnowflake,
-  text: zBoundedCharacters(1, 4000),
+  text: zBoundedCharacters(0, 4000),
   allowed_mentions: zNullishToUndefined(zAllowedMentions.nullable().default(null)),
 });
 
diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/changePerms.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/changePerms.ts
index 33b0c283..92fdbb84 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/changePerms.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/actions/changePerms.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { PermissionsBitField, PermissionsString } from "discord.js";
 import { U } from "ts-toolbelt";
 import z from "zod";
 import { TemplateSafeValueContainer, renderTemplate } from "../../../templateFormatter";
-import { isValidSnowflake, keys, noop, zBoundedCharacters, zSnowflake } from "../../../utils";
+import { isValidSnowflake, keys, noop, zBoundedCharacters } from "../../../utils";
 import {
   guildToTemplateSafeGuild,
   savedMessageToTemplateSafeSavedMessage,
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ const allPermissionNames = [...permissionNames, ...legacyPermissionNames] as con
 
 export const ChangePermsAction = automodAction({
   configSchema: z.strictObject({
-    target: zBoundedCharacters(1, 255),
-    channel: zBoundedCharacters(1, 255).nullable().default(null),
+    target: zBoundedCharacters(1, 2000),
+    channel: zBoundedCharacters(1, 2000).nullable().default(null),
     perms: z.record(
       z.enum(allPermissionNames),
       z.boolean().nullable(),
diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/triggers/matchWords.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/triggers/matchWords.ts
index e8c275e1..95556289 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/triggers/matchWords.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/triggers/matchWords.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ interface MatchResultType {
 const regexCache = new WeakMap<any, RegExp[]>();
 
 const configSchema = z.strictObject({
-  words: z.array(z.string().max(2000)).max(512),
+  words: z.array(z.string().max(2000)).max(1024),
   case_sensitive: z.boolean().default(false),
   only_full_words: z.boolean().default(true),
   normalize: z.boolean().default(false),
diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/types.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/types.ts
index 251ef643..086060a0 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Automod/types.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Automod/types.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ export const zAutomodConfig = z.strictObject({
   rules: zBoundedRecord(
     z.record(z.string().max(100), zRule),
     0,
-    100,
+    255,
   ),
   antiraid_levels: z.array(z.string().max(100)).max(10),
   can_set_antiraid: z.boolean(),
diff --git a/backend/src/utils.ts b/backend/src/utils.ts
index 641a2573..e7160e6b 100644
--- a/backend/src/utils.ts
+++ b/backend/src/utils.ts
@@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ export type StrictMessageContent = {
 
 export const zMessageContent = z.union([zBoundedCharacters(0, 4000), zStrictMessageContent]);
 
+export type MessageContent = string | StrictMessageContent;
+
 export function validateAndParseMessageContent(input: unknown): StrictMessageContent {
   if (input == null) {
     return {};