Please create a new feature that will hide the public link at the bottom of a split thread if the topic has been split to a forum only visible by staff and moderators. In my community we split off comments which derail the topic discussion into a staff only forum for tracking as opposed to deleting posts. However in Discourse it not only shows to the public what the name of the new split thread is in the staff only forum, it provides a link to the thread. To me this info at the bottom of a linked thread is making conducive topic moderation highly visible and it need not be. If this info was only visible to staff, I would be okay with it, however it is public.

You can always delete that link at the bottom of the original topic after splitting the post. No need to keep it there.

If I delete the link to the hidden forum will the link still show as a hidden post when it is deleted or will it be invisible to the public?

Non-staff do not see the “View 1 hidden posts” except when using thread filtering settings (in which case it’s only counting non-deleted posts). It’s suggested you have a non-staff alternate account to test this kind of thing yourself.

Hidden Split Topics

Product Support

rhrmn July 24, 2018, 4:13am 5

Okay. I was able to verfy this was the case. Thank you.

Topic		Replies	Views
Splitting a topic to a hidden category makes title public Product Support	2	385	October 31, 2022
Hidden or staff only posts for collaborative moderation Feature	6	1998	April 2, 2015
Action post on split topic Feature	3	1164	April 30, 2020
Moderator tools: two suggestions Feature	5	892	December 2, 2018
Hide part of post Feature	1	1280	June 13, 2016

Hidden Split Topics

Related topics