Suggestion review queue

Review Aethor suggestions before they are posted publicly

The optional review queue holds new submissions for staff before they appear in the public suggestions channel. It is useful when a server needs pre-moderation, duplicate screening or tighter submission quality.

Configure the queue

Open the suggestion setup dashboard with /setup modify. Choose a private staff channel as the queue channel, then enable the review queue for that setup.

The queue channel should be visible only to the staff who are allowed to review suggestions. Aethor needs View Channel, Send Messages, Embed Links and Read Message History there.

What reviewers see

Each pending card contains the submitted content, author context and available attachments. Staff can:

  • Approve — publish the suggestion into the configured public channel
  • Reject — remove it from the queue, with a reason
  • Similar — review possible related or duplicate ideas
  • Author — inspect the submitting member’s context

Approved suggestions continue through the normal creation workflow, including numbering, media handling, voting controls and automatic threads.

Submission controls

The same setup dashboard can add controls before a suggestion enters or leaves the queue:

  • a per-member submission cooldown
  • a minimum time the member must have been in the Discord server
  • a maximum number of open suggestions per member
  • exact duplicate-content rejection

These controls are per suggestion setup. Closed suggestions do not count toward the maximum-open limit, and exact duplicate checks compare normalized text against the member’s open and pending suggestions.

Important behavior

  • The review queue is optional. With it disabled, valid submissions publish immediately.
  • A queue-enabled setup needs a configured queue channel. If it is missing, new submissions cannot enter the public workflow.
  • Suggestion authors are still identified. The queue does not make submissions anonymous.
  • Message, slash-command and submit-button entries all pass through the same queue and controls.

After publication, use the approval and resolution workflow to manage the suggestion’s state.