Push users to search before posting

[tshenry (Taylor)]

I think we might have a decent solution. It’s not exactly what you are asking for, but I’m hoping it’s close enough. See what you think:

1. • Open the category settings for #wishlist and click on the “Topic Template” tab. Add a short notice like PLEASE SEARCH FOR SIMILAR TOPICS BEFORE POSTING and save the change

   • Next go to /admin/logs/watched_words/action/block and add the same short notice to the list of blocked words. It should look like this:

     

   • With this setup, all users will have the text PLEASE SEARCH FOR SIMILAR TOPICS BEFORE POSTING automatically inserted into their composer when trying to create a topic in #wishlist. Thanks to the blocked words feature, the post will not go through unless the user has deleted that text. They will see a notification like this until they remove the text:

     

     This should make for a fairly strong reminder since it requires a little more action than closing the suggested topics pop-up.

2. There is a site setting called limit_suggested_to_category which should restrict the similar topics to the category in which the post is being created. Currently there is no category-level option to specify which categories should be included in the similar topics list.