Players whose linked Discord identity was banned or muted can now submit
an appeal from the portal and track it; staff get a queue in the admin
moderation section to claim and resolve (approve/deny) appeals. Approving
a ban/mute appeal best-effort asks the Discord bot to reverse the action
(unban / clear timeout) via the internal API and posts a mod-log embed; a
down bot never fails the resolution (reversal_status is recorded).
- Schema: new server-owned `appeals` table (no cross-owner FK to
mod_actions; existence validated in app code).
- Server: model/appeals/* + player appeals controller (submit/mine/
eligible/withdraw) and admin queue handlers (list/claim/resolve/
per-user) under the existing admin+moderator gate; one-active-appeal
enforced app-side; eligibility keyed on the caller's linked Discord id.
- 6d: bot POST /internal/mod-reverse (+ modLog.postReversal) and
server botInternalClient.reverseModAction, wired into resolve().
- Client: admin Appeals queue + resolve modal, ModerationUser appeals
tab, player Appeals page (submit/withdraw), nav + routes + api methods.
- Docs: swagger annotations + component schemas, regenerated output.
- Tests: appeals controller + pure suites (server npm test 224 green).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XmHdsbnLzDMAVQkAoTQSBe
Standalone bot/ service (its own package.json/Dockerfile) managed entirely
through a new admin-only Discord Bot panel — token stored encrypted in the
DB and pushed to the bot process in-memory, never an env var. Built in
phases, each independently verified against a live Discord guild:
- Bot skeleton: gateway connection, internal shared-secret API, self-heals
on its own restart by pulling config from the site
- Moderation core: /ban /kick /mute /warn /warnings + mod-log channel
- Word/invite/spam filtering with leetspeak-resistant normalization and a
staff role/channel allowlist
- Scheduled messages: recurring (cron) and one-off channel posts
- Role assignment: button role menus, auto-role on join, temp roles,
bulk role ops
- Auto-rotating primary invite with an audit log
- Site integration: news-publish -> Discord announce webhook, manual
/announce, read-only /wiki search
Also fixes a pre-existing bug in both DB pools (server + bot): the mariadb
driver defaulted to timezone 'local', silently mis-serializing bound Date
params by the host's local offset instead of the DB's UTC session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
