Role Positions: Discord.js

Question

I am trying to create roles in my server via my bot in a certain order, but every time i run the command the role positions are all wrong.

Code:

client.on("message", message => {
    if(message.content.startsWith(prefix + "createrole")){
        message.guild.roles.create({
            data: {
                name: "Owner",
                color: "BLUE",
                position: 1
            }
        })
        .then(role => console.log(red(`Role created`)))
        .catch(err => console.log(err))
        message.guild.roles.create({
            data: {
                name: "Admin",
                color: "BLUE",
                position: 2
            }
        })
        .then(role => console.log(red(`Role created`)))
        .catch(err => console.log(err))
        message.guild.roles.create({
            data: {
                name: "Mod",
                color: "BLUE",
                position: 3
            }
        })
        .then(role => console.log(red(`Role created`)))
        .catch(err => console.log(err))
    }
})

In Theory this should be in order but I am not sure what is going on !

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Interesting that it gives that output, considering how roles are indexed. Please note that roles are indexed based on the @everyone role, for your owner role to be above your admin role it must have a higher position number. Upsettingly, I can't seem to find anything that describes this behavior, however testing does provide this behavior.

Setting Owner to 3, Admin to 2, and Mod to 1 should give your desired results.

... it is still really odd that Mod ends up above Owner with your current position values, but it is what it is I guess.

Answer 2

Seems that role create method and its data properties for position are indexed in a odd way and its indexed by 2 for a role to be higher than another.

code:

 if(message.content.startsWith(prefix + "createrole")){
        message.guild.roles.create({
            data: {
                name: "Owner",
                color: "BLUE",
                position: 5
            }
        })
        .then(role => console.log(red(`Role created`)))
        .catch(err => console.log(err))
        message.guild.roles.create({
            data: {
                name: "Admin",
                color: "BLUE",
                position: 3
            }
        })
        .then(role => console.log(red(`Role created`)))
        .catch(err => console.log(err))
        message.guild.roles.create({
            data: {
                name: "Mod",
                color: "BLUE",
                position: 1
            }
        })
        .then(role => console.log(red(`Role created`)))
        .catch(err => console.log(err))
        
    }

Result:

This is still very confusing to me but it is what it is.