What belongs on a Discord staff application
Gates first: Discord login, minimum account age, must already be in the server. Then availability, prior staff, judgement scenarios, integrity, and one optional anything-else box. Motivation essays are optional; recusal and a friend-in-a-ticket scenario are not.
The free Discord staff application generator will draft that form. The dashboard templates (mod, admin, helper, trial mod) are the same structure with ApplyDesk running the queue.
Review is the product
- One queue: pending, hold, approved, rejected — not a Sheet sorted by timestamp.
- Notes on the application. Assignment so two people are not writing the same reject.
- A scorecard for judgement, integrity, hours, and writing if you want the same axes every time.
- Trial role and probation on Pro: approve into limited perms, promote later.
After you decide
The Discord application bot assigns the staff role (or the trial role). Optional decision DMs use your templates. Rejects do not linger as “we’ll look later” in a channel. That is Discord staff management, not just a form.