Starboard
Your members pick the best messages: whoever loves a message reacts with ⭐. With enough stars the bot re-posts it in your starboard channel - author, text, picture and a link back to the original - and keeps the count live.
Setup
- Open Dashboard › Starboard and choose the starboard channel - a channel of its own where only the bot posts.
- Pick the emoji (⭐ by default, any standard emoji or one of your server's own) and how many stars a message needs - 3 is a good start.
- Turn it on. Members start starring, the bot does the rest.
How it works
- Only the chosen emoji counts. Reactions by bots never count; a member's star on their own message doesn't either (switchable).
- One post per message. The header shows the stars and the channel -
⭐ 3 · #general- and the star grows with the count: 🌟 at double the threshold, 💫 at four times, ✨ at eight times. - Live count. Every new star updates the post. Stars on the post itself count for the original too.
- Below the threshold again? The post is removed - or stays, if you switch “remove below” off.
- Deleted original - the post stays and says so. Deleted post - a moderator's decision: the message stays off the board until you put it back in the dashboard.
- Pictures, links, replies. The first picture (attachment, link preview or sticker) is shown big; other files are linked; a reply shows what it answered. Spoiler pictures are only linked, never shown.
Rules you can set
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Stars needed | 1-100 different members (default 3). |
| Own stars count | Whether a member may star their own message. Off by default. |
| Messages by bots | Whether messages written by bots can reach the board. Off by default. |
| NSFW channels | Messages from NSFW channels are left out unless you allow them. |
| Only younger than | Messages older than this (days) can't be starred onto the board - no digging up years-old posts. 0 = any age; default 30. A message already on the board keeps collecting. |
| Ignored channels | Channels and categories (with all their channels and threads) that never reach the board - for example the mod channels or #spam. |
| Embed colour | The line on the left of every post. |
| Boovies bonus | With the economy on: the author gets this many Boovies once per message that reaches the board. |
The board in the dashboard
The Starboard tab shows everything at a glance: how many posts are on the board, the stars collected, the best post and the most starred member. Below, the board itself - Top, This month or Recent - with a link to every original and every post, and a Remove button for posts that shouldn't be there. A removed message can be put back any time. Send test post shows you the look in your channel before anyone has starred anything.
Hall of Fame
A second channel for the very best. Set its own, higher number of stars - a post that reaches it is also posted in the Hall of Fame. Fame is for ever: a Hall of Fame post is never taken down for falling stars, only its count follows.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/starboard top | The ten most starred messages - all time or this month - with jump links. |
/starboard random | A random message from the board. |
/starboard stats | Server statistics, or one member's: posts on the board, stars collected, best post, stars given and rank. |