It’s brand new so we don’t yet have any documentation, but the purpose is to make a public notice to the community. The example you’re showing, warning the community about using obscenities, is a good example of how it could be used.
If you want to make a private note about a user that only Staff members can see, you’d want to use the Staff Notes plugin. Then whenever that person posts staff members can see a clickable icon next to their name
and then on click they can see the details
We will be making some changes to clarify the difference between a Staff Notice (visible publicly) and a Staff/User Note (applies to a user, and only Staff can see it). For example, we’re going to start calling Staff Notes “User Notes” as seen in the post admin menu here:
