# Glossary

## Form

An administrator-authored questionnaire with an open or closed state and optional
Discord role restrictions.

## Question

An ordered prompt within a form. Its answer shape is text, long text, one choice, or
multiple choices.

## Local draft

Unsubmitted or in-progress answers stored in the current browser for one form. A local
draft is device-specific and is not authoritative.

## Submission

The server-saved answer set for one form and one Discord account. A person can have at
most one submission per form.

## Update

A replacement of the answer values in an existing submission. The previous values are
retained in edit history.

## Other answer

Free text associated with an explicit “Other” choice. Selecting “Other” requires
non-empty text, even when the overall question is optional.

## Closed form

A form that no longer accepts new submissions or updates. A person with an existing
submission may still read or delete it.

## XP leaderboard

A public ranking of stored level 1+ members by cumulative XP.

## VC leaderboard

A public ranking of cumulative voice time across the guild’s current voice and Stage
channels, or one selected current channel.

## Current channel

A Discord voice or Stage channel returned by the guild channel API at the time its
five-minute metadata cache is filled. Deleted and historical channels are not current.

## Shared rank

A competition ranking in which equal values receive the same position and the next
position skips the tied places, such as 1, 2, 2, 4.

## Leaderboard read model

The website’s uncached, read-only view of the bot-owned `user_levels` and `voice_time`
tables, combined with current Discord channel metadata.

## Leaderboard SSE event

A minimal Redis notification on `erika:sse:leaderboards` that tells an open XP or VC
page to refresh its Server Component data after a bot transaction commits.