Temporarily hide post / mark less important?

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Hi,

our forum does have 6.000 posts per month at the moment, growing fast. Discourse is real great to manage it :slight_smile:

I would really wish to have a possibility to hide posts in two kinds:

  • hiding just like now (kind of deleting of posts which do violate the forum rules: the mods do hide, only mods can see the posts)
    And, additionally:
  • hiding of less helpful posts (really only hiding - only mods can hide them, every user can open them, if interested).

“Deleting” of posts is indispensable for legal sake. We actually do use the hiding mode for this, as only users with very high trust level are allowed to see them.
The additional possibility to “soft hide” posts would be very helpful to keep threads “readable”, to keep them close to the topic without making posts invisible for users.

I think this combination would be very very helpful to make forums more helpful for users, as it avoids that readers refrain from reading a thread simply because of its excessive length, caused by off-topic-posts.

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