# Canned responses to help moderators encourage civilized discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/canned-responses-to-help-moderators-encourage-civilized-discourse/16680>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [19 Junho , 2014 15:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/canned-responses-to-help-moderators-encourage-civilized-discourse/16680 "2014-06-19T15:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [19 Junho , 2014 19:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/canned-responses-to-help-moderators-encourage-civilized-discourse/16680/4 "2014-06-19T19:59:54Z")

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It has definitely been discussed in the context of inserting arbitrary staff messages (the yellow background ones).

Right now those are only inserted automatically based on certain staff actions (close, pin, archive, etc) but we eventually want people to be able to “speak in the moderator voice” by posting an official staff message with arbitrary text in the topic. That text would probably offer a series of templates that the site operators could control.

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