Starboard
Repost messages that get enough reactions to a channel of highlights, with your own emoji and rules.
- Dashboard
- Dashboard › Starboard
- Commands
/starboard (or e!sb)- You need
- Manage Messages for the commands (Manage Server on the dashboard, and for clean and show).
- Element needs
- Read Message History where people react. View Channel, Send Messages and Embed Links in the starboard channel.
- Plans
- More starboards. See plans
What it does
A starboard watches for one emoji. When a message gets enough reactions with it, Element reposts the message in the starboard's channel, with a link back to the original. Members can browse the best moments without scrolling back through chat.
You can run more than one board, like a ⭐ board for highlights and a 💀 board for the funniest moments. Each board has its own emoji, channel and rules, and a message can only end up on one board: the first to reach its threshold claims it.
Why use it
A starboard turns your community's reactions into a curated feed. It rewards good posts, gives quiet members something to read, and costs staff nothing to run.
Set it up
- Open the dashboard, pick your server and go to Starboard.
- Click New starboard. Give it a name, a channel, an emoji and how many reactions it needs.
- Save. The preview shows what a post will look like.
/starboard createwith a name. Leave channel empty to use the current one, and set emoji (⭐ by default) and threshold (1 by default)./starboard settingsshows every board.
The starboard guide walks through it step by step.
Commands
| Command | What it does | You need |
|---|---|---|
/starboard create | Create a starboard | Manage Messages |
/starboard edit | Change a board's channel, emoji, threshold, self-stars, or lock it | Manage Messages |
/starboard age | Set the oldest message that can be starred | Manage Messages |
/starboard whitelist / blacklist | Set the roles that can or can't star | Manage Messages |
/starboard settings | Show the boards in a channel or the server | Manage Messages |
/starboard who | Show who starred a message | Manage Messages |
/starboard stats | Show a board's stats for the server or a member | Manage Messages |
/starboard random | Show a random starred message | Anyone |
/starboard show | Show a starred message by its ID | Manage Server |
/starboard clean | Delete board posts with this many stars or fewer | Manage Server |
/starboard delete | Delete a board | Manage Messages |
Customise it
- Name: shown on every post, and can't be changed later. Names and emojis are unique in the server.
- Emoji: any emoji Element can use, including custom ones from your server.
- Reactions needed: how many reactions a message needs.
- Oldest message: reactions on messages older than this don't count. Set it in days, weeks, months or years, up to 10 years.
- Self-stars: whether people can star their own messages. Off by default.
- Locked: nothing new is posted while a board is locked.
- Only these roles can star and These roles can't star: up to 5 roles each.
Limits
| Free | Basic | Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starboards | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Common problems
- Messages don't get posted. Check the board isn't locked, the message isn't older than the board allows, and Element can read the channel and post embeds in the starboard channel.
- My own star doesn't count. Self-stars are off by default. Turn them on in the board's settings.
- A message went to the other board. A message belongs to one board: the first to reach its threshold.
- Someone's stars don't count. Check the board's role lists.
Turn it off or reset it
- Pause a board: lock it on the dashboard or with
/starboard edit lock:true. - Tidy it up:
/starboard cleandeletes posts with few stars, 100 messages at a time. - Delete it: on the dashboard or with
/starboard delete. Element forgets its posts, so they can't be looked up withwhoorshowafterwards.