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…
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)?
Ah, good call So I could have saved myself some worry… But it remains that there’s no straightforward way to edit a first post for banner without ‘stealing’ it from the original poster.
As the banner topic mentioned a link to the original topic, the original topic had a link to the banner topic at the end.
But the entire post is used for the banner, so if you want to edit the post, you need to remove the original content, which is not what is intended. Unless there is some marker to separate the banner from the rest of the post?
Ich habe mich also letztendlich für eine andere Strategie für Banner entschieden, die Sie vielleicht für Ihr Forum anwenden möchten:
Erstellen Sie ein neues Thema, das ausschließlich der Aufnahme des Banners dient. Es kann in jeder Kategorie sein. Ich bevorzuge normalerweise die Verwendung von Staff.
Kennzeichnen Sie das Thema mit #banner, damit Sie es später finden können.
Erstellen Sie entweder einen kurzen Beitrag oder, wie ich es normalerweise mache, erstellen Sie ein Bild mit der Pixelgröße 627x123 (auf diese Weise werden die Scrollbalken nicht ausgelöst und es erscheint in den meisten Situationen „sauber“); und verwenden Sie dieses Bild als Anker für einen Link zum Thema oder zu dem Link, den Sie hervorheben möchten, z. B.:
). But not others.
So I could have saved myself some worry… But it remains that there’s no straightforward way to edit a first post for banner without ‘stealing’ it from the original poster.