Option to close on import

[paulswithers (Paul Withers)]

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.

[rishabh]

@paulswithers

It would be good to be able to have feed topics automatically marked closed on import.

I’m not very familiar with the plugin but I wonder if these topics could be routed via a separate category on your site through this setting?

@Discourse

Configure the optional Feed Category Filter

The optional Feed Category Filter setting for each entry allow you to limit which feed items get published to Discourse based on the item’s category. When a category is entered into this setting, only feed items matching this category will be published to Discourse. Taking the feed at <![CDATA[Discourse]]> as an example, if you load that feed directly in your browser you will see that each entry has a category filter associated with it. The value of that category’s term property is what you would enter into the Feed Category Filter setting if you wished to only publish feed items for a specific category. For example:

Then in that feed-specific category, you could set topics to auto-close automatically in category settings:

[paulswithers (Paul Withers)]

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.