# Reply as Group publicly to posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [27 يناير 2016، 10:52م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601 "2016-01-27T22:52:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 10:52م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/1 "2016-01-27T22:52:21Z")
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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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 10:55م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/2 "2016-01-27T22:55:20Z")
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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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 10:56م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/3 "2016-01-27T22:56:21Z")
> [@cpradio](#):
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> change the ownership of the post
Nice idea.
Is change of ownership a moderator function or admin?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 10:58م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/4 "2016-01-27T22:58:38Z")
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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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 10:59م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/5 "2016-01-27T22:59:33Z")
We use staff message highlighting for other things.
But again an interesting idea.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 11:02م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/6 "2016-01-27T23:02:25Z")
> [@DeanMarkTaylor](#):
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> Is change of ownership a moderator function or admin?
Yeah, it is an admin action.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 11:06م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/7 "2016-01-27T23:06:17Z")
> [@cpradio](#):
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> change the ownership
> [@cpradio](#):
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> Yeah, it is an admin action.
That won’t work then - they are moderators. ☹
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 11:24م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/8 "2016-01-27T23:24:44Z")
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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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 11:31م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/9 "2016-01-27T23:31:50Z")
Staff colors does exist for moderators. Change ownership is Admin only.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27 يناير 2016، 11:33م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/10 "2016-01-27T23:33:12Z")
oops not doing too well with reading comprehension today 🙂
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [28 يناير 2016، 2:48ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-as-group-publicly-to-posts/38601/11 "2016-01-28T02:48:17Z")
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
