Reply as Group publicly to posts

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Members of the moderation team on one of my Discourse instances would like to…

… reply as “Moderators” or “Committee” to clearly indicate that it is the reply is position / view of the group as whole.

Whilst there could be a specific username setup for that purpose, I don’t like the ideas of multiple people having and sharing a separate username and password.

These users are not “admins” so “impersonation” is not reasonable.

I know we have private group inboxes now…
… is it possible to reply publicly as a group?

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One option is to go the user route, but change the ownership of the post after the reply is made, that way no one needs to know the password.

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Nice idea.

Is change of ownership a moderator function or admin?

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What if you paint the post yellow by making it a staff message? You can even add CSS to suppress username for staff messages if you must

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We use staff message highlighting for other things.

But again an interesting idea.

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Yeah, it is an admin action.

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That won’t work then - they are moderators. :frowning:

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I think we are fine to relax it so moderators can add staff colors, no reason this needs to be admin only.

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Staff colors does exist for moderators. Change ownership is Admin only.

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oops not doing too well with reading comprehension today :slight_smile:

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Another option is to have a shared account, with the password distributed in a group PM and login accomplished using browser profiles, and signing your posts to indicate authorship.

Absolutely, we are planning to do that. Read the blog post about it!

-@DeanMarkTaylor

protip: use themes to separate your browser profiles

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