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?
Así que al final elegí una estrategia diferente para los banners que quizás quieras aplicar a tu foro:
Crea un nuevo tema dedicado a alojar el banner. Puede estar en cualquier categoría. Yo suelo preferir usar Staff.
Etiqueta el tema con #banner, para que puedas encontrarlos más tarde.
Haz una publicación corta o, como suelo hacer yo, crea una imagen con un tamaño de píxel de 627x123 (de esta manera, las barras de desplazamiento no se activarán y aparecerá “limpio” en la mayoría de las situaciones); y usa esa imagen como ancla para un enlace al tema o al enlace que quieras destacar, por ejemplo:
). 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.