I have been searching the forum about hidden replies and wanted to put out another use case.
I was looking for this feature as well as I use Discourse when building courses for educational institutions. They generally want open replies but occasionally for assessment purposes teachers do not want students to see the replies as others well.
I experimented with whispers and private messaging but this seemed to cumbersome for my learners.
TLDR: Hidden replies would be a neat feature.
How do you see hidden replies working differently than whispers?
Don’t whispers work only for staff?
It would be great to have a write-only category, where people could post to a category, but not see other people’s posts.
See in my mind “teacher” == “staff”.
This implies per-topic permissions which would be a massive rearchitecting of Discourse. Highly unlikely to happen.
That makes sense , but how about write-only categories?
Thanks for the heads up Jeff. Learning is better in the open anyways. I try to push clients to not care about people seeing each other’s responses.