Global Banner Topic Phun

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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…

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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?
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Admins can reply to closed topics (they can do anything :sunglasses:). But not others.

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Ah, good call :slight_smile: 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.

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Which link? Do you mean ‘Edit this banner’ link? It will display only for admins

Admins can edit any topic or post. No need to steal ownership.

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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?

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The New "Banner Topic" pin type topic seems to say the first post in its entirety is taken as the banner.

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Alla fine ho scelto una strategia diversa per i banner che potresti voler applicare al tuo forum:

  1. Crea un nuovo argomento dedicato a contenere il banner. Può trovarsi in qualsiasi categoria. Di solito preferisco usare Staff.
  2. Taggare l’argomento con #banner, in modo da poterli trovare in seguito.
  3. Crea un post breve, o, come faccio di solito, crea un’immagine con dimensioni in pixel 627x123 (in questo modo, le barre di scorrimento non verranno attivate e apparirà “pulita” nella maggior parte delle situazioni); e usa quell’immagine come ancora per un link all’argomento o al link che vuoi evidenziare, ad esempio:
    [![immagine ancora](/path/to/the/image.png)](/path/to/the/target/link)

In questo modo puoi mantenere una raccolta di banner che aderiranno a un formato accettabile, senza toccare i tuoi argomenti esistenti.

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