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Moonlit Confessions

Anonymous to your server. Reviewed by your own staff.

How Moonlit Confessions works: what Lunara keeps, for how long, who can see it, and what to do if you’re worried about a post.

1. Before you post

  1. Other members and this server’s staff won’t see your name.
  2. Lunara keeps a sealed link between you and this post, used by its automatic checks, for 90 days. It then deletes the link. It stays in encrypted backups until they age out.
  3. Only Lunara can open it, and only if the law requires it or someone’s safety is at serious risk. Police, a court, NCMEC or Discord may then be given it.
  4. If a post is reported, or the law requires Lunara to keep it, the link is kept longer, even if you run /data delete.
  5. Discord carries your form, so Discord’s own rules and privacy policy apply.
  6. Your words can give you away. Leave out names and details you wouldn’t want traced to you.
  7. A moderator of this server reads your words before they go up, unless you choose Let it go. They may know your writing. Admins of the server can read the review channel too.
  8. Anyone who can read a post can copy it. Removing it can’t reach a copy.
  9. Staff can warn, cool down or block you without knowing who you are.
  10. Posts come down after 90 days, so a post never outlives your way to remove it.
  11. If Lunara is removed from a server, it can’t take anything down there.
  12. Reports go to this server’s staff, not to Lunara, and nobody promises how fast they’ll act. If you’re in danger now, call your local emergency number.

2. How it works

A member writes something with /confess, or the Confess button on a post or the rules card, and picks what may happen to it. A moderator of that server reads it in a private review channel before it goes up, unless they chose Let it go. A server’s owner or admins turn Moonlit Confessions on and pick the review channel, and that server’s own staff approve or deny every post. Lunara approves no post and no server.

Members can send a post a moonbeam: one each, hidden, and it pays nothing. At the server’s number, the post rises to the Moonboard, the server’s starboard, often after a moderator’s last look, and its copy there shows how many moonbeams it has, never who sent them.

Links, mentions, pictures, personal details and anything sexual are refused. A post that may name someone asks its writer to think again, and if they send it, it reaches the moderator with a flag. If what someone writes suggests they’re having a hard time, they’re shown places to get help and nothing is posted. The checks are word lists, so they miss things and sometimes catch what they shouldn’t. A person reads every post, and that can fail too.

3. What’s kept, and for how long

  • Your words, waiting. On the review card in the server’s review channel, until a moderator decides, and an approved post’s until it goes up, 14 days at most. That server’s reviewers and admins can read them. Lunara trims them from the card once a moderator decides, or, for a post they approve, once it goes up.
  • Your words, posted. On the post, in Discord, until it’s removed, and 90 days at most. Anyone who can see that room can read them.
  • Your words, if a post is reported. Sealed in Lunara’s database if a report hides the post, or if it’s still up when you withdraw it or run /data delete, while the server’s staff decide. If they keep the post, the sealed words go; if they take it down, they stay 90 days more, or a year for an upheld threat to someone’s life. A report of sexual content, an intimate image shared without consent or a child at risk keeps no copy at all.
  • Let it go. Nothing. No person reads it, and Lunara keeps only a daily count that names nobody.
  • The sealed link to you. 90 days from posting, then deleted, and the post comes down with it. Longer only while a report is open, for 90 days after it’s decided (a year after an upheld report of a threat to life or a child at risk), or while the law requires Lunara to keep it. Nobody in the server can open it.
  • Moonbeams and Kind Words. A code for you on that one post, different on every post, until voting closes, 14 days at most. Then only the totals stay. A post that rises to the Moonboard shows its count there, never who sent them.
  • Reports. The reason and a code for you, never your name or any words, until 90 days after the server’s staff decide. Staff see the reason and how many people reported, never who.
  • A warning, cooldown or block. Against a code for you in that server, while it lasts and a year at most. Staff see a code, never who you are.
  • Daily counts. For 400 days, for the server’s admins. They name nobody.

No confession ever appears on this website. The dashboard shows counts, never words or who wrote them, and so does Lunara’s owner console, but for one logged step that can open who wrote one post, only if the law requires it or someone’s safety is at serious risk. The privacy policy says all of this at length.

4. Who can see what

  • Other members. Not your name. Your words, the timing or a small crowd can still give you away.
  • This server’s reviewers. Your words, before they go up. Never your name.
  • This server’s owner and admins. Your words: Discord lets them read the review channel, whatever Lunara does. Never your name, on any plan, for any reason.
  • Other bots in the review channel. Assume they can read your words, and may keep them. Never your name.
  • Lunara. Counts only. Lunara can open the sealed link only if the law requires it or someone’s safety is at serious risk, and every opening is logged.
  • Discord. Your form passes through Discord, so assume Discord can see it.

5. Worried about a post?

Reports go to that server’s staff. Lunara doesn’t read them, and this is not an emergency line.

If someone is in danger now, call your local emergency number. If a child may be at risk, use NCMEC’s CyberTipline: report.cybertip.org. For anything on Discord, use Discord’s report form, dis.gd/report, or see its Safety Center.

If a server’s staff are the problem, tell Discord. You can also email support@lunarabot.gg with the server’s name and the post’s number. Send no images. A person reads every message, but it may take days. Lunara can take a post down and can stop the feature in a server. It can’t act in a server it has left.

6. For a server’s staff

You’ll never see who wrote a confession, and Lunara won’t tell you. You can act on the writer without knowing who they are. Reports come to you, not to Lunara. If you think someone is in danger now, call your local emergency number, then report it to Discord: dis.gd/report.

You choose who reviews, and the review channel must be private to them. Holders of the roles you name as under 18 can’t review. Admins set everything up on the dashboard.

7. Your data

/data export gives you a copy of what Lunara keeps about you, the confessions you wrote included, with links to them: anyone who sees that file can tell they were yours. /data delete takes down your posts and deletes what Lunara keeps about them, apart from what an open report, the law or a block on you still needs, until that ends.

If Lunara is removed from a server, it can’t take anything down there. Anyone who can read a post can copy it, and removing it can’t reach a copy.

8. Changes to this page

If this page changes in a way that matters, we will say so here and in Lunara’s support server before the change applies.