Approve and resolve suggestions
Accept, deny, plan, implement, duplicate and restore Aethor suggestions
Staff can resolve a suggestion from its message, by public suggestion number, or through the private manage panel.
Open the staff manage panel
Open the suggestion message’s Apps menu and choose suggestion-manage. The panel is private to the moderator who opened it.
From the panel, staff can:
- edit the suggestion text
- add a staff comment
- Accept, Deny, Plan or Implement the suggestion
- mark it as a Duplicate of another suggestion
- add a reason and choose whether to announce the action publicly
The dedicated context-menu commands such as suggestion-accept and suggestion-deny remain available as direct shortcuts.
Choose the outcome
| State | Use it when |
|---|---|
| Accepted | Staff agrees with the idea, without committing to a date. |
| Denied | Staff decides not to pursue the idea. |
| Planned | The idea is intended for future work. |
| Implemented | The requested change is available. |
| Duplicate | Another suggestion already represents the same idea. |
Labels, colors and destination channels can be changed per suggestion setup. A server can rename Accepted to something such as Approved or Shipping without changing the stored workflow state.
Add a reason or comment
A decision can include a reason. With state-history display enabled, transitions are rendered on the latest suggestion card with the moderator and timestamp.
suggestion-comment adds a staff note without changing the state. It works on open and resolved suggestions. Enable its anonymous option to hide the moderator’s displayed name; this does not hide the suggestion author.
Move a suggestion again
Suggestions can move directly between any states. For example, a denied suggestion can later become Planned, then Implemented. Applying its current state again is rejected.
Use suggestion-restore to reopen a resolved suggestion in the main suggestion channel. Votes and media are retained, but Discord creates a new message, so the message ID changes.
Permissions
Moderation commands default to members with Manage Messages. Change command access under Server Settings → Integrations → Aethor. Aethor needs access to the current suggestion channel and any configured state channel.
If new suggestions should require approval before members see them, configure the review queue.