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Confessions use a dedicated workflow, separate from suggestions, polls and forms. A submission never appears publicly and then gets deleted to hide it. The command response and preview are private. The member confirms the private preview to publish immediately; moderator approval is not required.

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Who sees the author

Designated reviewers and the server owner can see the submitting Discord account. Discord and Pup operators receive the identity. Readers of the published post see a fresh Pup message without the submitting account or interaction reference. The text itself can still identify its author; do not include details you want hidden. Reviewers need dashboard access and current membership in a designated reviewer role. The verified server owner can review submissions without that role. Configuration access or installation-operator status alone does not grant author visibility in the dashboard. Review access and reviewer actions are audited without submitted text or author identity in the general audit record.

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Configure intake

Open Anonymous submissions in the server dashboard, then expand Submission settings below the review queue. Members with configuration permission can choose one or more designated reviewer roles, optionally restrict intake to an eligible member role, and choose a confession text channel. Leaving a destination disabled stops that type. Give the bot View Channel and Send Messages in each destination; choose channel permissions appropriate to your desired audience and discussion policy. Pup does not create discussion threads or reviewed reply workflows in this version. The default limit is three submissions per rolling 24 hours, at least ten minutes apart. Both are configurable. Preview expiry is also configurable from one to sixty minutes (fifteen by default). Withdrawals still count until the quota window expires. Shared Redis limits also bound private requests to ten per minute and reports to five per minute per member and server. Intake fails closed while the shared limiter is unavailable. Preview, confirmation and publication apply current enforced content/link filters to the author in the destination context; Pup’s bot exemption does not bypass them.

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Submit and withdraw

  1. Use /anonymous submit and enter up to 1,200 characters. Attachments and Discord mentions are not accepted; link previews are suppressed on publication.
  2. Read the private preview, destination and disclosure. Choose Publish anonymously or Discard. Unconfirmed previews expire at the configured deadline. Changed settings require a new preview.
  3. Use /anonymous mine to see submission IDs and states (use the page option for older entries). Use /anonymous withdraw with your ID to withdraw pending content or queue deletion of your published post. Wait for deleted before assuming Discord removal.

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Review and report

The private dashboard queue opens on Needs attention: new reports, older submissions awaiting approval, and failed or uncertain publication. It shows the author, submission, publication state and any current author block. Choose All submissions to include reviewed and published posts. Search and page through results, or export all matching submissions across every page. Confirmed submissions queue a fresh public message immediately. Reviewers can remove a post, block its author from submitting for thirty days, or unblock the author. A block does not automatically remove an existing post. The Report button on a public post records a private abuse report; repeated reports by the same member count once. After checking a report, choose Mark reports reviewed to keep the post and clear the reports you have seen. Any newer reports still need review. Reviewing reports does not remove the post or block its author, and reports remain subject to the existing thirty-day retention. Refresh the queue to inspect reports and publication results. Failed publication can be retried after fixing access or policy. If settings or eligibility changed, the member should submit a new preview. Unknown delivery outcomes are not automatically resent: inspect the destination, then link the existing Discord message link. If a reviewer verifies no post exists, the explicit absence confirmation permits a retry. Check carefully to avoid duplicates. Failed deletions remain visible and can be retried.

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Retention and limits

New confirmed submissions and public posts have no automatic expiry. Pup keeps the text and private author association so members can find and delete their posts, and designated reviewers or the server owner can handle reports. The member, a reviewer or the server owner can remove a post at any time. Older submissions keep the expiry disclosed when they were created. Unconfirmed previews expire at the configured deadline; this never limits a published post. Withdrawal clears unpublished text immediately. After deletion, remaining private records expire after one day; withdrawals still count against the rolling daily quota. Reports and submission blocks expire after thirty days. Provider outages may delay Discord deletion; unresolved delivery records retain references needed for recovery. General reviewer audits retain the reviewer, action and opaque record reference under the installation’s audit policy. Pup cannot remove copies made by readers. This is anonymity from public account attribution, not anonymity from Discord, designated reviewers, the server owner or the operator.