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Leaderboard type · Image Rating
The Discord Photo Contest Bot
Members submit their best shot with one button, moderators approve it, and your server rates every photo from 1 to 10. The gallery in your channel ranks them live, round after round.
ScoreboardsAPP
Submit imageRate entriesWeb
Scoreboards turns a photography channel into a running photo contest: a theme, one button to enter, a star menu to vote, a moderator check before anything goes live, and a podium when the round ends. Run it every week and your server keeps a frozen record of every round's winners.
The basics
How a photo contest works on Discord
You create an Image Rating leaderboard for the round, "Golden hour" or "Shot on a phone", and post it in your photography channel. Members press Submit image, give the photo a title and attach it.
With approval on, each photo waits for a moderator before it joins the gallery, so off-theme or unsuitable shots never reach the board. Approved photos are rated from 1 to 10 stars by the server, or by the judges you pick.
The board ranks the photos by their average rating and shows the vote count beside each. When the round ends, the board freezes, posts the podium, and the next theme starts on a fresh board.
Cast a vote
Rate either entry from 1 to 10 stars. The board sorts by the average, and each member's vote counts once: vote again and it replaces the first.
Ranked by average
Place 1
Night Ferry
by juno.art
6votes
8.50
average
Not rated
Place 2
Paper Sun
by Oskar
26votes
8.38
average
Not rated
Night Ferry ranks first on 6 votes, ahead of Paper Sun on 26. The board sorts by the average, not by how many votes an entry has.
The board sorts on the average to two decimals. The gallery in Discord prints it to one, as ★ 8.5.
Features
What the photo contest bot does for you
One best shot each
Max Submissions caps photos per member, one to three works well, so the gallery holds everyone's best rather than everyone's camera roll.
Weekly rounds
Give each round an end time. The board freezes when it passes, posts the podium, and the next round starts on a fresh board.
A gallery in your channel
The board shows every photo beside its rank, title, photographer, average and vote count, eight to a page, and reorders as the votes come in.
Rate every photo, privately
Rate entries walks a member through the photos they have not rated yet, one at a time, starting at a random one so no photo is always seen first.
Photos stay with your server
On the board's web page, signed-in members of your server see every photo full size and can rate it there. Visitors from outside see the ranking, never the pictures.
A podium every round
The weekly recap shows the leading photo while the round runs, and the season's end posts the top three with the averages final.
Want the full mechanics and best-practice tips? Read the step-by-step guide to running a photo contest →
From theme to podium
A photo challenge in four steps
Entries come in through the board's own button, a moderator approves them, and the server votes with a star menu. Members can also submit and rate from the board's web page.
- 01
Set the theme
Create a board named after the round's theme, set how many photos each member may enter, and schedule the round's end.
- 02
Members submit
Submit image takes the title and the photo in one form, from Discord or from the board's web page.
- 03
Moderators approve
Each photo waits in the log channel for Approve or Reject, so only on-theme shots join the gallery.
- 04
The server rates
Members rate each photo from 1 to 10 stars, change their vote if they want, and the gallery ranks the round by its averages.
The best photo, not the most popular
Photos rank on their average rating, with the vote count beside it, so a strong shot with fewer votes can beat a weaker one with many.
Room for everyone
An entry cap and approval keep each round small enough that members actually look at every photo before they vote.
Every round on record
Each round is a season. Finished rounds stay frozen with their podium, so the server can look back at every winner.
In Discord
Every entry is a message, every vote a menu
With a log channel, every entry is posted there with a star menu under it. Rate entries on the board takes members through the ones they have not rated yet, privately.
An entry's own message
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Low Tide
Submitted by
@mira_k
Leaderboard
Minimal Poster Contest
Rating
★★★★★★★★★☆8.9/10 (31 votes)
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Saved ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ for Kiln.
Glasshouse
Submitted by
@tidepool
Minimal Poster Contest · You've rated 4 of 13
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Use cases
Photo contests servers run with it
Weekly photo challenges
A new theme every week, "reflections", "macro", "black and white", with the winner in Monday's recap.
Monthly photography contests
A longer round with judges and a prize, and blind voting so the photographer's name does not sway the vote.
Pet photo contests
The friendliest contest on Discord: cutest, sleepiest or most dramatic pet, rated by the whole server.
Desk and setup contests
Battlestations, desk setups and room tours, rated by the people who care most about them.
Food and cooking contests
Members photograph what they cooked or baked and the server rates the plate.
Travel and nature photos
Landscapes, cityscapes and holiday shots from wherever your members are in the world.
Quick start
Start a photo contest in two minutes
- 1
Add Scoreboards to your server
Invite the bot to your Discord server. It takes a few seconds.
Add to Discord - 2
Run /leaderboard create
Name the board after the round's theme and pick Image Rating. Choose a log channel so each photo is posted with its own star menu and can wait for a moderator's approval.
- 3
Post the first photo
Press Submit image on the board, give the photo a title and attach it. Members rate it from the menu under the photo, or with Rate entries on the board.
- 4
Fine-tune it in the dashboard
Approval, entry limits, a judges role, blind voting, the round's end time and the board's web page are all in the dashboard.
Open the dashboard
FAQ
Discord photo contest FAQ
How do I run a photo contest on Discord?
Add Scoreboards to your server, run /leaderboard create, name the board after the theme and pick Image Rating. Members submit their photo with the board's Submit image button and the server rates each one from 1 to 10 stars. At the end of the round, end the season: the board freezes and posts a podium of the top three.
Can moderators approve photos before they go live?
Yes, when the board has a log channel. Set Auto Approve to Off and every photo waits there for a moderator to press Approve or Reject, or pick a delay from 1 hour to 7 days to approve whatever nobody has reviewed by then. New boards start on Instant.
Can I limit each member to one photo?
Yes. Set Max Submissions to 1 in the dashboard. Photos waiting for approval count towards the limit, and a rejected photo frees its slot so the member can send another.
How is the winning photo decided?
By its average rating. The board sorts the photos by their average, highest first, and shows each one's vote count beside it. There is no minimum number of votes, so leave time for everyone to rate before the round ends.
Can I run a new photo challenge every week?
Yes. Schedule the round's end time in the dashboard: when it passes, the board freezes with its podium posted and the next round starts on a fresh board. To stop new entries earlier while voting continues, turn off Accepting Submissions.
Can people vote for their own photo?
Unless you turn it off. With Allow Self-Voting off, nobody can rate their own photo, in Discord or on the website. The Vote Log in the dashboard shows every vote, flags votes on people's own photos and lets you remove any vote.
Who can see the photos?
In Discord, whoever can see the board's channel. On the board's web page, only signed-in members of your server see the photos; visitors from outside see the ranking without pictures. Votes show without the voter's name unless you turn off Anonymous Votes.
More leaderboard types
Pick the format that fits your server
Every Scoreboards leaderboard lives in Discord and on the web, and one server can run as many as it likes.
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