Partnership And Affiliate Messages

Affiliates notify the whole server by default

Affiliates work like partnerships, but the default reply pings @everyone. Use affiliate channels where you want that notification, or remove the mention from the message. Read the affiliate setup steps.

Partner Managers

• Anyone can post: every member who can post in a partnership channel counts.
• Roles picked: only members with one of those roles count.
• Deleting the only Partner Manager role pauses partnerships until you pick a new one or clear the picker.

Partnership and affiliate channels

A channel can be a partnership channel or an affiliate channel, not both. The panel refuses a channel that affiliates already use and names it. The Affiliates button switches the same panel to affiliate setup.

Customize

1. In the panel, press Customize on the Message row.
2. Tiko posts a public preview with the Partnership Message Editor controls. The preview uses a sample partner, and your own score and rank.
3. Press ✎ Partnership Message to set the line above the embed. Type <@user> to ping the poster.
4. Use Content, Color, Thumbnail, Image, Author, and Fields for the embed. Images can be uploaded or pasted as links.
5. Press Save & Close. Nothing saves until then.

Reset Draft puts the default back in the draft. Saving a draft that matches the default keeps the built-in default. The editor closes after 2 hours, so press Save & Close before then.

Example

Message: ty <@user> ♡

Content → Description:

:Butterfly: ⠀ty for partnering !
  
  ⠀⠀♡ ⠀rank **#{rank}**
  ⠀⠀:Pencil: ⠀**{total_partnership_posted}** partners

The blank indents use the braille blank character (⠀). Copy them as they appear, since Discord trims normal leading spaces.

Variables

Partner details come from the invite, so some may be empty if Discord doesn't provide them.

Mentions

Tiko only pings the poster, and roles you type into the message line. It never pings other users, @everyone, or @here in partnership messages.

Partnerships vs. affiliates

Scores are counted separately, and a channel can't be both a partnership and an affiliate channel.

Permissions

The partnership permissions apply here too. Tiko also needs Mention Everyone in each affiliate channel. Without it, the reply still posts, but @everyone doesn't ping anyone. The panel doesn't check for this permission.

Open the affiliate panel

Only the person who opened the panel can use it. It closes after 24 hours, and the status line reads On, Off, or Paused, with the word affiliate.

Set up

1. Run /affiliateconfig.
2. Under Channels, pick where affiliates post. If a channel is already a partnership channel, the panel refuses it. Remove it from the partnership panel first.
3. Under Affiliate Managers, leave it on Anyone can post, or pick roles.

Test in a quiet channel first, because the default reply pings everyone.

Turn affiliates on or off

Open /setup → Fine-tune → More Utilities → Affiliate Message, then press Disable or Enable. /enable features and /disable features don't include this switch.

The affiliate message

By default, Tiko replies with:

• The line @everyone ‧₊˚ ✦ new affiliate ✦ ˚₊‧, which pings the whole server.
• A small embed that thanks the poster, with the poster's total posted and rank, your server's icon, and a footer naming the affiliate server.

The embed never pings. The poster is named, not pinged.

To change it, use Customize and follow the same partnership message editing steps. @everyone or @here typed into the message line ping the server. Remove them to stop the ping.

The preview never pings. It shows @everyone as plain text.

Affiliate variables

Partnership variables such as {rank} and {partner_server} don't work here.

Mentions

The reply can ping:

• The poster, if the line includes <@user>.
• Roles you type into the line as <@&role_id>.
• @everyone and @here, only when you typed them into the line.

Variables can't add an @everyone you didn't type.

Partnerships

Affiliates