Image Rating: Let Your Community Judge

The Image Rating leaderboard lets your community submit images and rate them with stars. It turns your Discord server into a curated gallery where the best submissions rise to the top through community voting. Perfect for art contests, photography challenges, meme competitions, and any creative event.

How It Works

Players submit images to the scoreboard. Once submitted, other community members can rate each image on a star scale. The leaderboard ranks submissions by their average rating, with the highest-rated images at the top.

Each submission shows the image, the submitter's name, the average rating, and the number of ratings received. This transparency helps the community trust that rankings are fair and well-supported.

Setting It Up

1. Use the /create command and select Rating as the scoreboard type.
2. Name your scoreboard — e.g., "Photo Contest March" or "Best Fan Art".
3. Set max submissions per player if you want to limit how many images each person can submit. This prevents any single player from flooding the board.
4. Optionally configure a validation channel where submissions are reviewed before going live. This lets moderators filter out inappropriate or off-topic content.

Submitting and Rating

Players submit images through the bot, and the images appear on the leaderboard's web page. Community members can then rate submissions directly. The system tracks who has rated what, so each person can only rate a submission once (though they can update their rating).

The public web page displays all submissions in a visual gallery format, making it easy to browse and compare entries.

What It's Good For

• Art contests — Run digital art, drawing, or painting competitions where the community votes on their favorites.
• Photography challenges — Weekly photo themes ("golden hour", "urban decay", "macro shots") where members submit their best shots.
• Meme competitions — Let the community decide the funniest or most creative meme through democratic rating.
• Design showcases — Rate game screenshots, builds (Minecraft, Terraria), character designs, or other visual creations.
• Creative writing with visuals — Pair stories or poems with cover images and let the community rate the full package.

Tips and Best Practices

• Use a validation channel. This is especially important for image boards. Moderators can review submissions before they go live, filtering out NSFW content, off-topic images, or low-effort entries.
• Set clear theme guidelines. Announce the contest theme, allowed formats, and any restrictions before accepting submissions. Clear rules lead to better, more focused entries.
• Limit submissions per person. A cap of 1-3 submissions per player keeps things fair and forces participants to submit their best work rather than flooding the board.
• Encourage honest ratings. Remind your community that ratings should reflect quality, not friendships. The more honest the ratings, the more meaningful the final rankings.
• Share the web page. The Image Rating leaderboard looks great on the web. Share the link so people can browse the gallery even outside Discord.
• Time-box your contests. Set a clear submission deadline and a rating period. This creates urgency and a clean endpoint for announcing winners.

When to Choose Something Else

Image Rating is specifically for visual content judged by the community. If your competition is score-based, use Classic or High Score. For competitive 1v1 play, go with ELO.