The discussion revolves around adding an option to automatically close topics on import via the RSS Polling plugin. paulswithers explains that syndicated blog posts should be marked closed to prevent comments from being scattered across multiple locations, advocating for a site-wide setting to ensure consistency. rishabh suggests using a separate category for feed topics, where auto-closing can be enabled via category settings, and notes that the Feed Category Filter can help route specific content. paulswithers acknowledges the sub-category approach as viable, though he struggled with automation setup, highlighting his inexperience with the feature.
We have a blog category. We use the RSS Polling plugin to allow members to syndicate blog posts from their own websites. But understandably they don’t want to have to check for comments in multiple places. It would be good to be able to have feed topics automatically marked closed on import.
Having this as a site setting would make sense (rather than per feed), to ensure comments for syndicated content are always in a single location, their source.
Preventing replies in the category is a workaround. But we would like to allow those who don’t have their own website to blog directly here, and replies would be valid for those blog posts.
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried a separate category and Automation task to move, but couldn’t get the automation to trigger, probably inexperience because it’s the first time I’ve used it.
But after I tried that, I realised that using a sub-category will work for the scenario I have, because my blog category is not already a sub-category.
