Yes. Upvotes increment the meta key you picked as the vote column on the original feedback row. There is no parallel votes table, no external service, and any reports or exports you already run against the data pick up the new counts as soon as each vote is cast on the board by a logged in member.

Yes. The submit button opens the Ultimate Member form you choose, posts the new idea into the same source table the board reads, and shows it on the board with zero votes and the default status. Members never see a separate submission form or a parallel database to sign in to at any point.

Boards respect the same Ultimate Member role rules the rest of your site uses. Cards from a private context only appear for members who can already read that context, and the same role checks gate who can vote, comment, or submit a new idea about how the reviews feature should behave.

Yes. Each board is its own SleekView render scoped to a chosen source, so you can run a dedicated reviews board, a separate friends board, and a third for sitewide ideas. Vote counts and status badges are independent per board, so a vote on one does not affect any of the others.

Cards stay on the board because the data lives on the feedback row, not on a deleted review record. The vote count is preserved, the author display name remains visible, and the status stays whatever the admin team last set, so the public history of the request is not lost when other content is cleaned up.

Yes. Any post taxonomy or meta key can drive the category tag on each card. Most teams use a small set like Feature request, Bug, UX, and Policy, with one color per category, so members can scan the board and filter to the kind of work they are most interested in voting on right now.

Yes. SleekView ships with role-based permissions, so you can let logged in members vote, restrict submissions to verified accounts, or open both to everyone. Limits are checked on the server side so the rules cannot be bypassed by editing the page or replaying the request from a separate tab.

Yes. SleekView pages the board, only loads the cards on screen, and uses indexed columns for the vote and status filters. Directories with hundreds of thousands of review rows stay responsive because the heavy fields are only fetched for the cards the visitor is actually looking at on the current page.