# 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.Июнь.2014 15:18:50 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:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [02.Февраль.2016 21:26:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/canned-responses-to-help-moderators-encourage-civilized-discourse/16680/9 "2016-02-02T21:26:51Z")

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I started working on a [template manager](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-create-an-interface-for-templates/38016) to similarly insert text into a message.

Here’s what I have so far, but templates now all live in code.

[https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-plugin-template-manager](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-plugin-template-manager)

My next step was to create a category for templates and have the template manager insert text from those topics. I can see lots of reasons to be able to insert a snippet text into messages. For example, want to add a poll creator to the composer (without installing the perfectly good plugin that does that)? Create a poll template and let users insert and edit it.

I’m new to ruby/rails/ember and am currently stuck on the next step.

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