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.
这是一个旧帖子，但令我惊讶的是，我发现作为分类版主（moderator）的用户并没有将话题置顶到该分类顶部的权限。这似乎是版主可以承担的一个重要职责。
一种解决方案是赋予版主 TL4 状态，但我觉得这不太合适，因为这会让用户能够将话题置顶到所有分类，对吧？因此，当你有一个用户负责一个分类的版主工作，另一个用户负责另一个分类的版主工作等情况时，你肯定不希望这样做。
有没有办法让版主仅在他们担任版主的分类中置顶话题？或者只为特定分类赋予用户 TL4 状态？
目前还没有，分类管理仍然是一个相对较新的功能。