# Suggest favorite YouTube tutorials for Discourse Admins and Moderators
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-favorite-youtube-tutorials-for-discourse-admins-and-moderators/321826
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** moderation
**Created:** [August 15, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-favorite-youtube-tutorials-for-discourse-admins-and-moderators/321826 "2024-08-15T14:35:17Z")
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-favorite-youtube-tutorials-for-discourse-admins-and-moderators/321826/1 "2024-08-15T14:35:17Z")
I am looking for Discourse Admin tutorials on YouTube
Searching Discourse tutorials on YouTube finds a [playlist by JonoBacon](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWpUQfjuJDXzcqwG0qrayABIU4Vid_v8B) (@jonobacon) for that included [Trust Levels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkxNL--_Q88&list=PLWpUQfjuJDXzcqwG0qrayABIU4Vid_v8B&index=6&pp=iAQB) and [Stats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcOZrH0oA9c&list=PLWpUQfjuJDXzcqwG0qrayABIU4Vid_v8B&index=3&pp=iAQB)
But I’m hoping to find something to introduce maintenance tasks. Like consolidating duplicate Tags to improve the quality of search results.
The [Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349) topic jumps right in, assuming familiarity with Rake (Ruby Make) and the Ruby for [Rails console](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#bin-rails-console). And that the hosting plain gives access to these. And maybe assumes Admin level access. But a back-channel conversation indicates that a UI is available somewhere. I haven’t found where. ( **update** : see [Accessing the bulk actions menu](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performing-bulk-actions-as-a-moderator/272832#p-1332746-accessing-the-bulk-actions-menu-2) subsection in [Performing bulk actions as a moderator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performing-bulk-actions-as-a-moderator/272832)) Or whether there are tools that allow Moderators to do some bulk maintenance tasks.
Since finding Discourse tutorials for Moderators/Admins has been an exercise in frustration, I thought a referrals topic was a good idea. (Why isn’t there a **Video Tutorials** section at the beginning of the Documentation [Site managementi index](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-management-index/308032) pinned topic?)
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-favorite-youtube-tutorials-for-discourse-admins-and-moderators/321826/2 "2024-08-15T14:47:43Z")
A suggestion popped up after I posted. Although it isn’t ‘videos’, it is targeted at ‘non-technical’ maintainers. (Which hopefully means that they link to introductions of skills-based techniques before referencing use of them.)
> [@Help for non-technical site admins, moderators, etc](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-for-non-technical-site-admins-moderators-etc/50155):
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> Hello! I’ve been lurking here for a couple of months. I just started in my role as the Director of Community and am learning Discourse as I go. First - huge thanks to all the folks here who have filled this site with so much useful information. I’m here a lot searching and digesting. However, I am not a technical person (though I can hand code HTML as fast as I can type… old school!). As a site admin who can really only CONFIGURE Discourse, it’s often a challenge for me to find the answers to …
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-favorite-youtube-tutorials-for-discourse-admins-and-moderators/321826/3 "2024-08-15T15:18:40Z")
> [@emyoulation](#):
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> Like consolidating duplicate Tags to improve the quality of search results.
It’s quite old and shows an interim result of the development of the the tag synonym feature. But it’s the only video about tag synonyms I know of
> [@Merging tags - Tag Synonyms](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-tags-tag-synonyms/81869/12):
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> Here’s a preview of what I’ve got so far. I’d like to add a bit more to the tag info section, like which categories it’s restricted to (if any), and which tag groups it belongs to (if “tags listed by group” setting is enabled). Adding tag descriptions has been requested, so this info section will be where it will be seen and changed.
The first steps are still the same, but the button does not say “info” anymore but shows a wrench.
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://meta.discourse.org/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggest-favorite-youtube-tutorials-for-discourse-admins-and-moderators/321826/4 "2024-08-15T19:44:25Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> It’s quite old and shows an interim result of the development of the the tag synonym feature. But it’s the only video about tag synonyms I know of
In a Private Mail, @JammyDodger suggested using the [Performing bulk actions as a moderator](https://meta.discourse.org/t/performing-bulk-actions-as-a-moderator/272832)
> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> bulk select all the `#tag` topics, append `#tags`, and then delete the `#tag` tag. Alternatively, you could make `#tag` a tag synonym of `#tags` so they would all be grouped and displayed together
