# Suggestion Board — Sylon

> Members send ideas, the server votes, and staff answer with a reason — instead of a channel full of messages nobody ever replies to.

Canonical page: https://sylon.app/features/suggestions

## Overview

Almost every server ends up with a suggestions channel, and almost every one of them stops working the same way: ideas pile up, a few get reactions, nobody answers, and after a month the channel is an archive of things that were never going to happen. The board fixes the part that actually broke — not collecting suggestions, but closing them. Every suggestion gets a number people can quote, a vote count, and a staff decision with a reason attached. The member who sent it is told the outcome directly.

## How it works

1. **One command, one numbered post** — A member runs /suggest and their idea appears on the board as #12, with vote buttons under it. The number is per server and sequential, so it is short enough to say out loud in a voice channel — which is what people actually do with it.
2. **Votes that cannot be stuffed** — One row per voter, so a double-click, a retry after a dropped connection or the same person on two devices can never inflate a total. Clicking the side you already picked takes your vote back; clicking the other side switches it.
3. **Answers, not silence** — Approve, Decline and Mark done sit under every suggestion. Pressing one opens a box for the reason — optional, but offered every time, because an unexplained decline is the complaint every suggestion channel eventually generates. The decision is written onto the post and sent to the author as a direct message.
4. **Review first, if you want it** — With review turned on, suggestions land in a staff-only channel and reach the board only once somebody approves them. Rejected ones are never posted publicly — announcing something in order to say no to it is noise.

## Key capabilities

- Sequential per-server numbers people can quote
- Up and down votes, or support-only if a public pile-on is what you are avoiding
- Optional staff review before anything is posted publicly
- Approve, decline or mark done, each with an optional reason shown on the board
- A direct message to the author when their suggestion is answered
- Anonymous mode, decided per suggestion so a later settings change cannot unmask anyone
- An automatic discussion thread under each suggestion
- Cooldown, open-suggestion quota and length limits to keep the board readable
- Role whitelist and blocklist for who may suggest, and staff roles for who may answer
- Its own log channel, and every action in the dashboard's Logs view

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I stop one person filling the board?
Two settings do it independently. The cooldown is a wait between suggestions; the open-suggestion quota caps how many a single member can have awaiting an answer at once, so somebody who sends three and never gets a reply cannot send a fourth. Both accept 0, which means no limit.

### What happens to a suggestion nobody can see, if I turn anonymity off later?
Nothing. Anonymity is stored on each suggestion when it is sent, not read from your settings when the board is drawn. Turning the setting off changes what happens next, never what already happened — the one mistake here that could not be undone by changing the setting back.

### Do votes stay open after a decision?
By default no: once staff answer, the buttons come off. You can leave them on if you would rather members keep signalling on something already decided — some servers use that as evidence for revisiting it.

### Can a suggestion ping the whole server?
No. Suggestions are posted with mentions switched off entirely, so @everyone, @here and role mentions inside a suggestion are text and nothing else. That holds for the reason a moderator types as well.

## Related features

- https://sylon.app/features/ticket-system
- https://sylon.app/features/role-menus
- https://sylon.app/features/moderation

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