Hi, I want to pin a “introduce yourself” topic to the Top. Please tell me how can I do that.

You can click on the wrench icon (if you are the admin) the choose Pin Topic [image] Then you can choose to pin this in a specific category (pin topic), or at the top of Latest (pin globally) across the whole community. Alternatively you can make this a Banner Topic for it to appear above the tit…

I’m not sure what you’re asking, I don’t know what you mean by “top category”. There is “top” as in visual position and there is “Top” as in the topic list page of “most bestest” topics as determined by an algorithm. If you are referring to the Top topic list page, AFAIK, there is currently no way…

A banner pin would be the only way? But that would be ‘global’

Yes. That’s why I mentioned using CSS so it wouldn’t be displayed globally. I’m guessing that what is wanted is for the Top topic list page to be similar to the Category topic list pages. i.e. the topic lists will have pinned topics at the beginning of the lists until they are unpinned. Perhaps a …

There is a search term that returns all pinned topics: in:pinned

Hi, I’m asking if you can pin the topic to the top list (like the list below), [18] because I would like to have one particular topic to be the first on this list, is it possible? I don’t want to use the banner on all pages. Thanks for help!

It seems to me that having a Pinned that isn’t “top” on its own merits is in contradiction of what the Top page is. [image] Daria: I don’t want to use the banner on all pages. If you want to promote a topic on the Top page, I think a Banner topic is the best way. As I posted previously, if y…

One major reason would be pinned topics that are immediately locked - # of replies is a big contributor to Top topics, as well as likes-on-replies. I think it kind of makes sense.

Can moderators pin topics, or is it just admins ?

How can I manually pin a topic to the "Top"

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Daria (Daria) August 31, 2018, 2:28pm 3

Hi,

I want to pin the topic to the top category, so that it’s the first on the list of top topics.

Is it possible?

Thanks for help!

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How can I manually pin a topic to the "Top"

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