We’re looking for a way (via a plugin or any other method) to pin a comment to the top of the comment thread on a given forum post. The reason: We want to update older posts with current info/research etc., without rewriting the actual post itself. Any ideas?

This is a great idea. Commenting to make sure I remember to check back for replies!

You can use the solution plugin to effectively pin them to the top.

As long as OP is someone who has ”legit right” to lift one comment (as solved one). And there is no issues to show nagging if that topic still continues.

That’s unnecessary noise for the rest of us? Rather than Posting, consider using the watching system and set the topic to “Watching” using the dropdown control at bottom left of the Topic. You can also use the Bookmarking system and create a reminder. If you like an idea you only have to hit Like too, instead of taking up a post just verbalising that.

You might want to use Discourse terms to describe your use case: Thread = Topic Comment = Post A Post is not a Topic, a Topic consists of Posts, though I guess you can “post a Topic” :sweat_smile:

I’m not 100% sure I have the right idea, but are you wanting to visibly mark a topic as ‘out-of-date’, and include a link to the newer information? If so, you could use a Staff Notice on the OP. Something like: [Staff Notice] I also added a “knowledge-archive” tag for good measure to take advantage of the tagging capabilities if you need them. :slightly_smiling_face:

[图片] Ralph3: The reason: We want to update older posts with current info/research etc., without rewriting the actual post itself. I run into this scenario often, as it’s useful to understand why we decided something, with the historical conversation. As @not-ethan mentioned, the Discourse Solved plugin is a useful tool for this. One method: Have your discussion topic, with all kinds of useful information (“Where should we have lunch?”) Move the useful information into a new topic (“Places to have lunch”) Reply to discussion topic with a link a short description, and mark that reply as the “Solution”, which will show prominently in the first topic Thanks for the input everyone! Now we have a solid list of lunch spots at https://forums.example.org/t/places-to-have-lunch/1337. Check it out! A bonus to this method is that it pairs well with other methods you may deploy over time, such as combining it with Discourse Docs, or long megathreads, or topics with auto-deleting replies… lots of combos for different ways of collaborating. :slight_smile:

Let me try my question again, this time using the proper Discourse terms. I’m re-trying because the suggestion of Solved Discourse Solved plugins leads me to believe I wasn’t clear. We have tech-oriented topics that are aging but we want to keep the text of the OP intact. At the same time, we don’t want readers to think that the text of the OP is necessarily complete. Our idea of an elegant solution is to pin a post directly beneath the OP which will contain any updates that we come across. Does this help clarify our need?

What about updates to the update? Are you going to create subsequent replies which roll up all the updates and then pin those? Or will you need to pin multiple responses? The reason this doesn’t have an immediate and obvious solution is because this is typically the domain of wiki posts. The current latest is presented, with previous versions still there for review.

Thanks, Stephen. Not having the necessary privileges, I wasn’t aware that wiki posts existed. (That’s because I’m trying to solve this issue for the org I work for.) But a wiki posts does sound like a good solution – assuming we can control the pinning of the wiki post directly beneath the OP. Do you know if that is possible?

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merefield (Robert) 2022 年3 月 27 日 06:01 6

您可能想使用 Discourse 术语来描述您的用例：

Thread = Topic
Comment = Post

Post 不是 Topic，Topic 由 Post 组成，尽管我想您也可以“发布一个 Topic”

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