Starboards

Members react to a message; once enough of them have, Arclo reposts it in your starboard channel with a live star count. Up to ten boards per server, each with its own channel — a hall of fame, a cursed board and an art board can all run at once with different rules.

1Setting one up

1. 1

   Switch it on

   Server Management → Starboards.

2. 2

   Create a board

   Pick its channel, or let Arclo create a read-only one that still allows reactions.

3. 3

   Choose the emoji and threshold

   The first emoji is the primary one; you can count several. Three or five stars is a sensible start.

4. 4

   Design the post

   The default is MEE6-shaped — ⭐ **5** | #channel above an embed with the message, its author and a jump button.

#starboard

ArcloBOTToday at 14:32

⭐ 7 | #general

juno

This is a great message that got starred by the community!

Starboard

Jump to message

How counting works

Threshold

How many stars before it is posted.

Count reactions on the board post too

So a message can keep climbing after it has been reposted. The same person starring both places is counted once.

Allow multiple reactions

Whether one member starring with three different emoji counts as three.

Downvotes

An emoji that subtracts. The net is clamped at zero.

Self-stars

Whether authors may star their own message.

Roles that count

Restrict who is allowed to star.

Ignored channels

Channels whose messages never reach the board.

NSFW

An NSFW source message only ever posts if you allow it and the board channel is itself NSFW.

Milestones

Optional tiers: five stars is one emoji and color, twenty is another. The builder has a slider so you can drag the count and watch the post change. Off by default, with a classic ladder pre-seeded for when you switch it on.

Extras

• Link buttons — up to five per board, with {link} resolving to the original message.
• DM the author the first time one of their messages reaches the board. Repost cycles never re-notify.
• Private boards are hidden from the commands for anybody who is not staff.
• A test message sends the board's current design, with sample content, to check it before anybody stars anything.

Moderating a board

/starboard message covers the lot: view the record, recount it, force something onto the board, remove it, freeze it so the count stops moving, or trash it permanently.

• A post deleted by a moderator is marked trashed and never comes back on its own.
• A post removed because it dropped below the threshold can return if it climbs again — with a per-user cooldown so one person cannot toggle it.

Commands