Votes, comments & reactions

A live board is fully public: visitors can post suggestions, upvote them, react with emoji, and join threaded comment discussions. Nobody needs an account or login — the page creates an anonymous session automatically, and the board shows a small "Anonymous session enabled" badge so visitors know.

Posting a suggestion

If you've allowed public submissions, the board shows a submission form (a sidebar on desktop, a Submit a suggestion button on mobile). Visitors enter a title and a description, then click Submit Anonymously. If you've turned on Require Approval, they see "Submitted! Pending review." and the suggestion waits for your team; otherwise it goes live on the board immediately.

The form includes a "How do I know this is anonymous?" link that explains the protections to visitors: no name, email, account, or login is required, and the board owner sees only the suggestion itself — never who sent it.

Voting

Each suggestion has an upvote arrow with a running count. Clicking it adds a vote; clicking again removes it. Visitors can sort the board by Top (most votes), Newest, or Oldest to see what matters most or what just arrived.

Every suggestion also carries a status badge — Open or Closed — so visitors can tell which ideas are still being considered.

Reactions

Beyond votes, visitors can react to any suggestion with one of five emoji: 👍 ❤️ 👀 🎉 🔥. Reactions are toggles — clicking the same emoji again removes it — and the counts are visible to everyone.

Comments

Clicking the comment bubble on a suggestion opens its discussion. Comments support one level of threading: anyone can reply to a top-level comment. A few things to know:

• Visitor comments appear as Anonymous with a short random tag (for example "Anonymous #a1b2"), so a conversation can be followed without revealing anyone's identity.
• Comments from your team carry a Team badge.
• Visitors can delete their own comments from the same browser they posted from.
• Your team can pin one comment to the top of a thread — useful for an official response.
• If your team locks comments on a suggestion, visitors see "Comments are locked" and can read but not post.

To see how your team moderates all of this behind the scenes, read Manage, merge & moderate suggestions.