I have a unique need which is at the edge of normal operation but would appreciate suggestions on how I could approach the issue. We are moving from a listserv type periodic digest to Discourse. Our current digests include links and an invitation to join our Discourse based Community, which happens…

Sounds like a good use case for tags, staff only tags, in this case. That way every time a post is “promoted” you can add a tag to it to ensure you won’t do it twice.

Have you considered using tags? There’s a setting that allows specific tags to be used by Staff only, which you could use: [staff-tags] As well, going to the tag url would display all of the topics that you’ve applied that tag to. Taking it one step further, you could also use CSS to color that t…

Thank you both! That would work with one challenge: when you add a tag to a topic it updates the edit timestamp so that topic comes to the top of the ‘latest’ stack again. I may be able to make that work since I’m only doing one at a time, although I recently ran into that as an issue when I added …

Interesting. Thanks! Researching that also led me to two other interesting solutions: Staff notes or staff color. I could add a note about when I used that topic, which could be useful. Or just set the color. I’ll assume that ‘staff color’ is only visible to the staff… I continue to be amazed at …

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Falco (Falco) October 16, 2019, 4:19am 5

That only happens if the topic has zero replies, which should be highly unusual for a promoted topic.

You can also reset the bump date if necessary

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