In a discussion about the Voting plugin, wlandgraf seeks a way to help users easily distinguish between open topics (eligible for voting) and closed ones (no longer eligible). While closing topics prevents voting, all topics—open and closed—still appear in lists. AEW745 suggests manually unlisting closed topics via the Admin Wrench, but wlandgraf notes this is tedious and doesn’t allow users to optionally view closed topics. ondrej proposes moving closed voting topics to a separate category with restricted permissions, allowing users to see but not vote on them—this can be done efficiently using bulk admin actions. wlandgraf acknowledges multiple workarounds but hopes for a simpler built-in filter like “list open topics.” JammyDodger offers a practical solution: appending ?status=open to the category URL (e.g., https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6?status=open) to show only open topics. AEW745 adds that bulk selection can streamline closing or unlisting, and clarifies visibility rules: closed topics remain visible to users with category access; unlisted topics are hidden from the public (visible only to admins/moderators); flagged topics may also be hidden based on moderation rules. No native plugin feature currently offers a toggle between open/closed topic views, but URL filtering and category organization provide effective alternatives.
When using the Voting plugin, you will most likely want users to vote for topics that should be handled somehow. For example, voting for feature requests, or thinks like that.
In that regards, it should be very useful that users can easily see what are the topics that are “finished” (not entitled to be voted anymore, and what are not.
I’m using the concept of closing a topic to flag the topics that don’t need to be voted for anymore.
But right now all topics (closed and open) are listed for users. How users can easily see only the topics that should be voted for (i.e., the open ones)?
When you close a topic it prevents the user from being able to vote.
What if you were to move these to a category just for closed voting topics? Using category permissions users can see topics but cannot vote. That would leave the topics users can vote public in another category?
You wouldn’t have to move each topics separately thanks to bulk admin actions.
Thank you for all the suggestions. Yes, there are many options, actually.
But I was wondering if there was an easy way to do so. Just “list all topics” or “list open topics”. It seems it doesn’t.
You can use the select topics feature to select multiple topics at once and Close them or unlist them from there.
Please note the following:
Closed Topics can be seen by anyone that has permissions to see the category.
Unlisted Topics are completely hidden from the public community. However, Admins and Moderators can still see hidden topics but everyone else won’t be able to.
Flagged Topics will be hidden from the community if anyone flags a post too many times.
