Some of the topics on my team’s Discourse are related to debugging/troubleshooting and have the potential to contain personal data. A couple people have already accidentally created topics containing personal data, and I’m sure it’ll happen again. Is there a way to display a message when a user is creating a new topic (not a plain old reply post) to help with this? We’d basically say something like, “Make sure this post doesn’t contain any confidential or sensitive data.” We wouldn’t necessarily want it to be a popup when clicking Create Topic because that’d be annoying, but maybe something similar to the Discourse messages that sometimes appear in the preview window on the right side of the page (like the “Your topic is similar to…”)

I think templates may be a bit rigid for our categories since they are quite broad in terms of subject matter. I can further discuss with our team, though.

Perhaps the composer-popup hidden similar-topics ember-view “Your topic is similar to…” trigger could be configured for this, or to make a pop up reminder with a new post, not my skill set just an idea maybe you can work from it.

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Stephen (Stephen) February 21, 2020, 1:32am 2

What about using a topic template for the category?

I’ve found those to be effective when steering the content of new topics.

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