Polls, giveaways and suggestions

What they have in common:

• Free: none of these tools depends on a Premium plan, and there is no limit on the number of polls, giveaways or suggestions.
• Language: published messages (poll, giveaway, suggestion card, counting errors) are written in the server's language. Replies that only you can see follow the language of your Discord app.
• Administrators: when an action is reserved for administrators, this means members who have the Discord Administrator permission or a role declared as the bot's administrator role (see Permissions and roles).
• Logs: the creation and end of polls, giveaways and suggestions are recorded in the General Server Logs channel, if one is set (see Logs).

Both channels are picked on the Channels page of the dashboard, in the "Main & Community Channels" section (the + button creates the channel for you), or in /config → Channels ("Suggestions channel", "Counting game channel").

A poll asks a question with 2 to 4 choices. Members vote with buttons and an image shows the results live.

Creating and publishing

1. A member types /poll with their question (300 characters max). A panel only they can see lets them pick the duration (from 1 minute to 1 week) and the choices (80 characters max each).
2. They have 5 minutes to click Confirm. The poll is posted in the channel where the command was typed.
3. The creation is recorded in General Server Logs.

While the poll is open

• One vote per member. Clicking another choice moves your vote; you cannot remove it.
• Votes are anonymous: the message only shows the number of votes and the percentage of each choice.
• The results image is redrawn about 2 seconds after votes come in, so the message is not edited on every click.

End of the poll

• When the duration is over, the bot closes the poll by itself: the message shows "Finished", the buttons turn grey and the image shows the final results. No other message is posted.
• Before that, the poll's author or an administrator can click Stop the poll. Stopping it is recorded in General Server Logs.
• Bot restart: running polls pick up their timer again at startup. A poll that should have ended while the bot was down is closed as soon as it restarts.

Automatic cleanup

Finished polls stay saved.

Bot permissions in the channel: Send Messages, Attach Files (for the results image) and Read Message History.

A giveaway is a contest: members sign up with a button, and at the end the bot randomly draws the winners and hands out the reward.

Creating

Only administrators can run /giveaway. The panel lets you set the title, the duration, the number of winners (1 to 50), an image, the roles allowed to join (up to 25) and the reward. The giveaway is posted in the channel where the command was typed: run it directly in the right channel (details on the Community page).

Joining

• A member clicks 🎉 to join. If they already joined, the bot offers to leave the giveaway.
• If allowed roles are set, only members with at least one of those roles can join. Administrators can always join.
• The 👥 button shows the list of participants (10 per page), only to the member who clicks.
• A member who leaves the server is automatically removed from running giveaways.

End and draw

When the duration is over (or when an administrator stops it with ⚙️), the bot:

1. randomly draws the winners among the participants; a member who already won this giveaway can't be drawn a second time;
2. updates the message: "Winners: …", the end time, the number of participants, and the 🎉 button turns grey;
3. gives the reward to each winner who is still on the server;
4. sends each winner a direct message (if they accept DMs);
5. replies to the giveaway with a congratulations message that mentions the winners;
6. records the end in General Server Logs.

Allowed roles are not checked again at draw time. If nobody joined, the bot simply replies "Giveaway ended with no participants.".

Rerolling or stopping (⚙️ button)

The ⚙️ button opens a private panel for administrators:

• Reroll winner(s): a complete new draw, among participants who have never won yet. Previous winners keep their reward: remove it by hand if needed. The new winners get their reward, a DM and a new congratulations reply.
• Stop with winner(s): ends the giveaway right away with a draw.
• Stop without winner: ends the giveaway without a draw. You can still draw winners afterwards with Reroll.

Each reroll and each stop is recorded in General Server Logs.

Automatic cancellations and cleanup

Each cancellation is recorded in General Server Logs ("Giveaway cancelled").

Bot permissions: Send Messages and Read Message History in the channel, Manage Roles for a role reward.

The suggestions box turns a channel into an ideas board: every message posted becomes a card with a vote button, an optional discussion thread and decision buttons for administrators. There is no command: members just write in the channel.

Setup

Pick the Suggestions Box channel on the Channels page (or in /config → Channels → "Suggestions channel"). If you create it with the dashboard's + button, the channel gets a 60-second slow mode. There are no other options.

Posting a suggestion

A member writes their idea as a regular message. The bot checks the message:

If everything is fine, the bot posts the card and deletes the original message. Attached images (5 max) are kept in the card. The creation is recorded in General Server Logs with a link to the card.

Voting and discussing

• Vote: every member (the author included) can vote once. Clicking again removes the vote. After a click, you have to wait 1 minute before changing your mind on the same suggestion.
• Create thread: opens a discussion thread named "Discussion:" followed by the beginning of the idea. The thread is archived after a week without messages. The button then becomes Open thread.

Deciding: approve, deny or delete

These buttons are reserved for administrators.

1. Approve or Deny opens a "Your response" window (required, 1,000 characters max).
2. Once submitted, the card changes: it turns green ("Suggestion approved!") or red ("Suggestion denied!"), shows the response and loses its buttons.
3. A copy of the card is posted in a locked Accepted Suggestions or Denied Suggestions thread, created automatically in the channel. The suggestion's discussion thread, if there is one, is locked.
4. The author gets a DM with their suggestion, the number of votes, the status and the response.

Delete removes the card. The deletion is recorded in General Server Logs with the suggestion's text and author.

Cleanup

If a suggestion's card is deleted (with the button or by hand), its discussion thread is deleted too.

Bot permissions in the channel: Send Messages, Manage Messages (delete the original messages), Read Message History, Create Public Threads, Manage Threads (lock threads, post in locked threads), Send Messages in Threads.

In the counting channel, members count together: 1, 2, 3… Every correct number gets a reaction from the bot. A mistake resets the counter to 1.

Setup

Pick the Counting Game channel on the Channels page (or in /config → Channels → "Counting game channel"). It must be a regular text channel. There are no other options.

The rules

• A correct number gets the bot's reaction.
• A wrong message is deleted. The error message stays for 5 seconds, then disappears.
• After a wrong number, the bot writes "1" itself: the next expected number is therefore 2.

• The bot keeps no score or record: it only looks at the last message in the channel. Editing or deleting an old number has no effect.
• Deleted messages in this channel are not logged.
• Members on the Dispatch.IO blacklist can't play: their message is deleted and the channel is hidden from them.

Bot permissions in the channel: Send Messages, Embed Links, Add Reactions, Manage Messages, Read Message History.

• Community: every screen and button of /poll and /giveaway.
• Channels: picking the suggestions and counting channels.
• Logs: where creations and endings are recorded.
• Levels and XP: XP rewards for giveaways.
• Discord events and Scheduled tasks: the bot's automations.