Suggestions
Members post ideas, everyone votes with buttons, and staff approve, deny or implement them.
Set it up
Open the dashboard and pick your server. Sign in with Discord if you haven’t.
Find Suggestions in the sidebar (or press ⌘K and type its name) and turn it on.
Go through the settings below. Simple mode shows the essentials; switch to Advanced for the rest.
Try it in Discord:
/suggest. Staff can restrict or turn off each command in Commands.
Settings
What you’ll find on the Suggestions page of the dashboard. Settings marked Advanced only show in Advanced mode.
Channels
- Suggestions channel
- ChannelNew suggestions are posted here.
- Decision channel
- ChannelDecided suggestions move here. Empty keeps them in the suggestions channel.
- Move these to the decision channelAdvanced
- List
- Discussion threads
- On/offOpen a thread on every suggestion so members can discuss it.
- Close threads after a decisionAdvanced
- On/offArchive and lock the thread once a suggestion is approved, denied or implemented.
Posting and voting
- Anonymous suggestions
- ChoiceStaff can always see who posted a suggestion.
- CooldownAdvanced
- DurationHow long a member waits between suggestions. Staff skip it.
- Minimum lengthAdvanced
- NumberCharacters a suggestion needs.
- Blocked rolesAdvanced
- RolesMembers with these roles can’t suggest or vote.
- Let members vote on their own suggestionsAdvanced
- On/off
- Upvote emojiAdvanced
- Emoji
- Downvote emojiAdvanced
- Emoji
Reviewing
- Reviewer roles
- RolesThese roles can approve, deny and delete suggestions. Mods always can.
- DM the author about decisions
- On/off
- Close voting after a decisionAdvanced
- On/off
- Show who made the decisionAdvanced
- On/off
Commands
/suggest
EveryoneSuggest an idea, or review suggestions
/suggest new [idea] [anonymous] [image]/suggest approve <suggestion> [reason]/suggest deny <suggestion> [reason]/suggest consider <suggestion> [reason]/suggest implement <suggestion> [reason]/suggest reopen <suggestion> [reason]/suggest delete <suggestion>/suggest block <user> [reason]/suggest unblock <user>/suggest show <suggestion>?suggest <idea> | approve|deny|consider|implement|reopen <suggestion> [reason] | delete <suggestion> | block <user> [reason] | unblock <user> | show <suggestion>Options
- new idea (optional)
- Your suggestion
- new anonymous (optional)
- Hide your name (staff can still see it)
- new image (optional)
- An image to go with it
- approve suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
- approve reason (optional)
- Why (shown on the suggestion and sent to the author)
- deny suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
- deny reason (optional)
- Why (shown on the suggestion and sent to the author)
- consider suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
- consider reason (optional)
- Why (shown on the suggestion and sent to the author)
- implement suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
- implement reason (optional)
- Why (shown on the suggestion and sent to the author)
- reopen suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
- reopen reason (optional)
- Why (shown on the suggestion and sent to the author)
- delete suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
- block user
- Who to block
- block reason (optional)
- Why (for staff)
- unblock user
- Who to unblock
- show suggestion
- Suggestion number, message ID or link
Also: ?suggestion, ?suggestions
Related modules
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