We’re looking for a way (via a plugin or any other method) to pin a comment to the top of the comment thread on a given forum post. The reason: We want to update older posts with current info/research etc., without rewriting the actual post itself. Any ideas?

This is a great idea. Commenting to make sure I remember to check back for replies!

As long as OP is someone who has ”legit right” to lift one comment (as solved one). And there is no issues to show nagging if that topic still continues.

That’s unnecessary noise for the rest of us? Rather than Posting, consider using the watching system and set the topic to “Watching” using the dropdown control at bottom left of the Topic. You can also use the Bookmarking system and create a reminder. If you like an idea you only have to hit Like …

You might want to use Discourse terms to describe your use case: Thread = Topic Comment = Post A Post is not a Topic, a Topic consists of Posts, though I guess you can “post a Topic” :sweat_smile:

I’m not 100% sure I have the right idea, but are you wanting to visibly mark a topic as ‘out-of-date’, and include a link to the newer information? If so, you could use a Staff Notice on the OP. Something like: [Staff Notice] I also added a “knowledge-archive” tag for good measure to take advant…

[image] Ralph3: The reason: We want to update older posts with current info/research etc., without rewriting the actual post itself. I run into this scenario often, as it’s useful to understand why we decided something, with the historical conversation. As @not-ethan mentioned, the Discourse…

Let me try my question again, this time using the proper Discourse terms. I’m re-trying because the suggestion of Solved Discourse Solved plugins leads me to believe I wasn’t clear. We have tech-oriented topics that are aging but we want to keep the text of the OP intact. At the same time, we don’t…

What about updates to the update? Are you going to create subsequent replies which roll up all the updates and then pin those? Or will you need to pin multiple responses? The reason this doesn’t have an immediate and obvious solution is because this is typically the domain of wiki posts. The curren…

Thanks, Stephen. Not having the necessary privileges, I wasn’t aware that wiki posts existed. (That’s because I’m trying to solve this issue for the org I work for.) But a wiki posts does sound like a good solution – assuming we can control the pinning of the wiki post directly beneath the OP. Do yo…

Pinning a post to the top of the topic

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not-ethan (Ethan) March 26, 2022, 7:50pm 3

You can use the solution plugin to effectively pin them to the top.

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