Show who's the topic's author, optional, per-category, with custom title

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meglio proposed a feature to display a customizable “topic owner title” next to the nickname of the topic author in specific categories. The title would be optional and activable per category, with different titles possible for different categories (e.g. “question author”, “farm owner”, “car seller”).

codinghorror suggested utilizing the existing topic-owner CSS class to highlight the topic creator’s posts, allowing for styling and visual distinction of the author’s avatar and posts.

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I have a category where goat-farmers create their personal pages (= topics) about their farms. Those topics quickly become 300+ messages and engage comparatively many participants.

For this category only, I’d like to specify a “topic owner title” that would appear next to their nickname.

It is important that the title is customizable and activable individually per category. Fot instance, I eould only use this feature with a few catefories, and make a different topic author title in each of the categories.

Pther examples:

  • question author
  • tutorial author
  • poll author
  • wikipage moderator (so called moderator, actually the owner of a huge wiki-page)
  • review author
  • farm owner
  • car seller
  • organization representative

An optional (and separate) setting might be a checkbox saying “highlight topic author”, which would also highlight author’s avatar in some way.

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I could have sworn we have a CSS class on the post that indicates “this is the topic creator” for subsequent posts in the topic, I checked the HTML via f12 and ah yes there it is:

<div class="topic-post clearfix topic-owner regular">
<article id="post_3" data-post-id="177932" data-user-id="17648" class="boxed onscreen-post" style="">

Target the <div> with the class of topic-owner and you can make those posts stand out.

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