I have moved a couple answers, split topics etc. in my community. I’ve usually felt the need to explain that and thus posted an answer to the modified post or sent a private message to the author. Sometimes I also didn’t take any action, but wanted to ask the author to do something differently next…

Why not just reply to the topic?

As mentioned above :wink: [이미지] joa: I don’t want to write these as answers as they are not about the topic.

Sorry. I guess I don’t see how they are not about the topic that needs to be edited.

But Staff notices are visible only by staff, right? What I think he wants is a staff notice that everyone can see.

They are also sometimes about responses to the topic and often about how to write a good response. So then I’m replying to an answer of a user who replied to the actual topic but I’m not talking about the topic, just how this user wrote their answer. This just distracts from the actual discussion, …

Those are arguably even more visible then answers. This feels to heavy-handed to me. I don’t want to reprimand the user, I often just want to let them know stuff like btw, I extracted this post to a different topic, because I think it’s better suited to a different discussion. Don’t be afraid to s…

[이미지] pfaffman: But Staff notices are visible only by staff, right? What I think he wants is a staff notice that everyone can see. No, they are globally visible.

Send them a PM with this info. If you want out of band communication, you need to go out of band. Click or tap the reply arrow in the editor to change reply type to PM.

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Falco (Falco) 9월 15, 2019, 6:23오후 5

This is the textbook use case for Post notices (staff notices)

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Everybody can see "note to staff"! Support post-notices	8	1921	11월 3, 2020
Make Staff Responses More Visible Feature	5	1041	11월 22, 2020
"Staff Notice" ➜ "Notice from Staff"? UX post-notices	10	483	1월 24, 2025
Better cooperation between staff members Support	4	1877	6월 15, 2016
Staff Notices for....staff? Support	3	1118	11월 9, 2022

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