# Option to move accepted answer to the top

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-move-accepted-answer-to-the-top/58386
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** solved
**Created:** [24 november 2015 om 21:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-move-accepted-answer-to-the-top/58386 "2015-11-24T21:32:08Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [6 maart 2017 om 21:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-move-accepted-answer-to-the-top/58386/13 "2017-03-06T21:06:22Z")

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One thing I’d like to do with it is create a plugin to make specific categories more useful as “knowledge-bases” - so you’d have the first post of every topic as a wiki post, and all other posts would be “hidden” unless the user particularly wanted to see the conversation.

So you’d end up with something like [this](https://community.quickfile.co.uk/t/global-css-template/8955), but without having to make the topics read-only/closed.

It also opens up the possibility of doing topic-summary type things using plugins, like what is described in this spec:

> [@Plugin: Manually curated topic summaries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-manually-curated-topic-summaries/39477):
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> Related topics: [Plugin Idea: Thread Updates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-idea-thread-updates/7973)[Admin/mod ability to insert a post wherever](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-mod-ability-to-insert-a-post-wherever/39043)[Summarize this Topic → Write a Summary for this Topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summarize-this-topic-write-a-summary-for-this-topic/25460) Example use case: Problem statement Some topics, like a call-for-bug-reports or a new Howto, will receive a lot of replies that go stale shortly thereafter because the appropriate fixes/edits were applied as a response. When closing or marking as solved doesn’t make sense, the best solution to date is to delete these replies. The act of del…

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