I just marked a whisper as the “solution” of the Playground topic in our forum. Now people who can’t usually see whispers see it quoted in the first post. Maybe that is intentional as theoretically the solution to a certain topic could be found in a whispered post, but in that case I think it woul…

As I understand it - a whisper is only viewable by Staff - thus it would seem to be a bug that Whispers can be marked as solutions as in practice posts being marked as solutions are “support” questions and Staff whispers wouldn’t be seen… I might have just confused the issue as well

I just came across this myself - there seem to be a handful of things to keep in mind with whispers, and this is one of them. I was hoping to be able to use solved whispers as a part of my use of discourse as a ticket system. Often I want to mark tickets (discourse messages or topics with ticket tag…

[image] tobiaseigen: I just came across this myself - there seem to be a handful of things to keep in mind with whispers, and this is one of them. I was hoping to be able to use solved whispers as a part of my use of discourse as a ticket system. I did the same thing @tobiaseigen , and had mar…

Is it intentional that you can mark whispers as solutions?

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sam (Sam Saffron) February 8, 2018, 6:57pm 3

I would say this is a bug, a minor bug that only staff can trigger, but yeah a bug

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Is it intentional that you can mark whispers as solutions?

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