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
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 title space across the site until the user has closed it.
If you search for these terms on this site you will find more advice and best practice, particularly for Banner Topics
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!
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 to game the algorithm (unless maybe a plugin could do it). You could however make a topic a Banner and it would display at the top “visually”. If you did not want the Banner to display on pages other than the Top page, I believe that should be easy enough to do with some custom CSS
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 feature could be to have all Pinned topics display first in the lists but I’m not sure how dealing with the different time frames would fit into it. And depending on how many Pinned topics there were, it could effectively negate some of the usefulness of the Top page.
Maybe a better approach would be to have a “Pinned Topics” page?
There is a search term that returns all pinned topics:
in:pinned
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.
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 you don’t want to have it on other pages it should be easy enough to do with CSS. Have you looked into using CSS and found it to not be possible with the currently existing selectors?
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 ?
All staff and TL4 users as well, if you have any.
Das ist ein alter Thread, aber ich war überrascht festzustellen, dass Nutzer, die Moderatoren einer Kategorie sind, nicht die Möglichkeit haben, Themen an die Spitze der Kategorie zu pinnen. Das scheint eine wichtige Funktion zu sein, die ein Moderator haben könnte.
Eine Lösung wäre, Moderatoren den Status TL4 zu verleihen, aber ich glaube nicht, dass das gut funktioniert, da dies einem Nutzer die Möglichkeit geben würde, Themen in allen Kategorien zu pinnen, oder? Das wäre also nicht wünschenswert, wenn ein Nutzer Moderator für eine Kategorie ist, ein anderer Nutzer Moderator für eine andere Kategorie usw.
Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, Moderatoren zu erlauben, Themen nur in den Kategorien zu pinnen, für die sie Moderatoren sind? Oder den Status TL4 nur für bestimmte Kategorien an Nutzer zu vergeben?
Derzeit nicht, die Kategorienmoderation ist noch eine relativ neue Funktion.