# Global Banner Topic Phun **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [08.Сентябрь.2017 15:29:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-banner-topic-phun/69638 "2017-09-08T15:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [08.Сентябрь.2017 15:29:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-banner-topic-phun/69638/1 "2017-09-08T15:29:08Z")
I had this nice conversation that I wanted to pin globally as a banner. However, I wanted to edit the first post so the pin is inviting. As I’m a smartass, I decided to create a ‘Site Banners’ category under `/c/staff`, visible to `Everyone`. Then I proceeded to create a topic and hit ‘Banner this topic’. #### Whew, nice, it worked! Er… But then, I had a link to that banner topic appearing at the end of the original conversation… So I decided to close the banner topic so that people would simply come back to the original discussion, and… ![2017-09-08-165939_1147x934](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/4/74aefdd61914bc034fef30c3bfbedc42c1903a19.png) **Yes, I could reply to a closed topic…** Not what I expected. #### Hacking It Anyway So, I proceeded to move all posts from the original topic to the banner topic, gave the first post (the banner) to the original poster, and it was as if I had inserted the banner post before the existing topic. Sort of. ## Questions - Isn’t replying to a closed topic a bug – even if it’s a banner? - Is there a marker for staff to edit the first post of an existing topic, e.g., before `--` on its own line, to insert the banner text? - Is that something you would like to do (inserting a ‘banner post’ for an existing topic)? - How’s your way of dealing with this issue? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-banner-topic-phun/69638)._