Adding staff color before actually posting

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gassim suggests adding a feature to allow moderators/admins to add staff color before posting, rather than after. This would save time and avoid adding an ‘edited’ icon to important posts. ondrej points out that edits can be hidden by admins/moderators, but gassim argues that having the option to add staff color before posting would still be beneficial.

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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I guess a good place to add that would be here

You can hide these edits as an admin / moderator by pressing the :pencil2: icon and then ‘hide revision’

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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:

Thanks! :+1:

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Closing in favour of the existing feature request - Allow marking with Staff Colour in the compose menu