Pre-filled Staff Notices

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In Reddit there are auto moderators that notices users before posting. According to a study this increasing civil behavior in threads. Discourse may give to admins and/or moderators the same ability. We can write different staff notice messages and it may appear on above of every topic in selected categories.

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And this is different from a banner topic, or a pinned topic… how?

There are also first post and first topic education panels that already appear when you start typing as a new user.

As well as discobot which talks to every new user via PM…

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Wouldn’t be it look like a big, important announcement with banner topic or pinned topic? I thought it as a little reminders start of each topic.

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If you are looking for “little reminders when someone starts a topic” you already have that in the first topic and first post education panels that appear on the right side of the composer, e.g.

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You won’t get this on mobile since there isn’t room for it, of course.

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I’m on mobile and forgot this panel but this is just for new users. Is it hard to implement or do you find the idea unreasonable?

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Use topic templates if you feel that strongly about it, and need it badly on mobile, then the information will be forced upon users every time they start a new topic.

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It was just an idea, not a necessity.

Thank you.

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Right but I’m curious what user behaviors you are seeing that are precipitating this line of thought. That’s what I am trying to get to.

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It’s mostly on Discord actually and we will channel them to Discourse forum soon.

We have seen that in over one year, people don’t read long rules and explanations. I thought it would be better to inform them with short notices everwhere rather than one long rules page. That Reddit study is also interesting. I found it here.

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It’s best to limit your observations to the software actually in use, as chat is quite different than discussion. For that matter, Reddit is quite different than a linear, quoted discussion as well.

In other words, see what happens in Discourse rather than speculating about what you’re seeing in other software that serves different needs using different mechanisms.

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Then I may share my observation in future. Other forum owners, moderators can share their thoughts as well. I would like to hear their opinions.