I noticed here on meta that the documentation posts have what appear to be the system user as the author. On our site we tend to just leave the author as the person who created the post, however for older posts it feels a bit odd to have them showing a user who may not be active any more. Is there…

I think one of the reasons not to use @system is that if anyone flags the post (eg. a ‘something else’ flag to inform you of a typo or error, etc) then those flags don’t currently appear in the review queue and quietly disappear into the void. :slight_smile: [1] The @Discourse user is the main one …

[image] JammyDodger: if anyone flags the post Oh, I would have expected that errors would be reported through making a reply to the post. [image] JammyDodger: have it set to Watching This could be accomplished by watching the whole category, correct? Thanks!

[image] one1: This could be accomplished by watching the whole category, correct? I was thinking of Watching the individual topics, but a blanket Watching for the category should work as well. :+1: (or even a tag if there was a particular subset of the docs they were responsible for). Though…

Changing documentation posts to system user

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one1 June 8, 2025, 2:12pm 3

Oh, I would have expected that errors would be reported through making a reply to the post.

This could be accomplished by watching the whole category, correct?

Thanks!

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Changing documentation posts to system user

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