# Adding staff color before actually posting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-staff-color-before-actually-posting/222789
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 1, 2022, 9:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-staff-color-before-actually-posting/222789 "2022-04-01T09:16:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![gassim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gassim/32/220910_2.png) [@gassim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gassim)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 9:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-staff-color-before-actually-posting/222789/1 "2022-04-01T09:16:39Z")

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Hi I’m not sure if this is possible or not but I really can’t find such a setting anywhere, maybe this is a feature request. Would it be possible if a moderator/admin can choose to add staff color before even posting?

- Posting and then adding color just takes more time and sometimes can be forgotten
- Posting and then adding staff color adds an ‘edited’ icon to the post and that’s not a good option when we’re posting accurate and very important matter such as a security post! When staff post a security post it’s important to note that the post has been carefully written by an expert and it’s not nice to have an ‘edit’ right after - I hope you understand what I mean.

Thank you!

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-staff-color-before-actually-posting/222789/2 "2022-04-01T12:46:23Z")

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I guess a good place to add that would be here

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/e/5e007c72b1a9384cd0ffe454293545cf76152ccb.png)

> [@gassim](#):
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> adding staff color adds an ‘edited’ icon to the post and that’s not a good option

You can hide these edits as an admin / moderator by pressing the ✏ icon and then ‘hide revision’

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### Author: ![gassim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gassim/32/220910_2.png) [@gassim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gassim)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-staff-color-before-actually-posting/222789/3 "2022-04-01T14:02:21Z")

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> [@ondrej](#):
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> You can hide these edits as an admin / moderator by pressing the ✏ icon and then ‘hide revision’

Yes, thanks! I’m already doing that! But for some reason when I was writing the post, I tried to check in incognito and the icon was still there don’t know how, and now I checked and it’s working fine, but still I think it’d be good if we have this option!

I agree either there or maybe here:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/e/2e27b57dd9a3f09d32b5855bcb7beac4d16c487c.png)

Thanks! 👍

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-staff-color-before-actually-posting/222789/4 "2023-06-28T21:10:28Z")

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Closing in favour of the existing feature request - [Allow marking with Staff Colour in the compose menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-marking-with-staff-colour-in-the-compose-menu/110173)