# Quali funzionalità di Discourse sono più preziose per te come community manager?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [21 Marzo 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510 "2018-03-21T20:01:29Z")
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### Author: ![outofthebox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/outofthebox/32/83708_2.png) [@outofthebox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofthebox)
#### Post date: [21 Marzo 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/1 "2018-03-21T20:01:30Z")

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Hi, I just happened to read today about Discourse’s [Timed Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-a-timed-topic/60731). What a great feature! This will definitely help with maintaining a consistent content calendar. It is much easier to pre-write posts a few days (or weeks) in advance, have time to sit on them and improve them, and know they are going to go out on at a specified time.

So I thought I’d put it out there: _in your role as a community manager,_ what features of Discourse are most helpful to you - and why?

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### Author: ![cookywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@cookywook](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cookywook)
#### Post date: [22 Marzo 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/2 "2018-03-22T10:22:12Z")

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**Flags!** Having a simple queue of things for mods to look through is super handy.

**Watching Categories** I appreciate how granular the options are for watching categories, so I can just get an alert when there’s a new topic (but not EVERY new reply).

**Logs** Not super exciting, but very useful and critical in some cases.

**Staff Notes** Really handy when you’ve got lots of folks having multiple interactions with users.

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [22 Marzo 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/3 "2018-03-22T15:00:12Z")

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I love:

- **Splitting topics**. So useful.
- **Permissions framework**
  - so good you can allow veterans to edit, whilst blocking newbs but allowing them to read, very useful in some circumstances
  - hide categories from people who aren’t logged in/don’t have an account

- **Wikis**

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [28 Marzo 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/4 "2018-03-28T19:28:07Z")

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Whispers and staff notes for me.

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### Author: ![Noah751](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/noah751/32/82274_2.png) [@Noah751](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noah751)
#### Post date: [28 Marzo 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/5 "2018-03-28T20:30:28Z")

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I like:

**Flags:** As a community manager, the flagging system is a useful feature, it helps keep trolls out, lets us moderate easily and effectively, and best of all it keeps watching 24/7 and does some of the moderation automatically

**Banners/Pinned Topics:** Useful for promoting events and changes easily in just a few clicks.

**Wikis**

**Staff Notes/Whispers:** Useful for private staff interaction.

**Badges** Super handy, badges show sense of achievement, so new users can contact them for help in the future.

**Logs** I find logs very useful and critical as a manager, if there is a problem in the future, I check the logs for any suspected problems.

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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [29 Marzo 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/6 "2018-03-29T04:13:34Z")

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Trust Levels are by far the most groundbreaking feature for me.

- It’s an incredibly elegant deterrent of _human_-powered spam
- It makes it more difficult for new well-intentioned users to make a bad first impression just because they’re overly excited (resulting in excessive link sharing, mass posting etc.)
- Creates an “engagement funnel” similar to the widely used sales funnel, making it very easy for CMs to tailor their outreach strategies to different tiers of users. (May be a creepy comparison to some, but a sales funnel done with good intentions is nothing more than a structured process for answering the question “are we a good fit?”)

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### Author: ![dandv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dandv/32/169779_2.png) [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [15 Gennaio 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/7 "2021-01-15T07:16:59Z")

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La mia funzionalità preferita, sia come utente che come amministratore della community, è “Il tuo argomento è simile a…”.

 ![Suggerimenti per argomenti simili](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/1/f18807b25b7561fb097618e4c91732db0841835b.png)

Come utente, questo mi aiuta spesso a trovare risposte quando la ricerca della mia domanda non ha dato risultati soddisfacenti.

Ma questa funzionalità brilla davvero (anche se è per lo più invisibile!) per gli amministratori della community: sappiamo che molti utenti non cercano prima di pubblicare. Suggerendo argomenti simili, Discourse non solo riduce drasticamente gli argomenti ripetitivi (a confronto, i Gruppi Facebook sono _pieni_ della stessa domanda ripetuta all’infinito), ma aiuta spesso i nuovi utenti a trovare ciò che cercano senza rubare tempo agli altri e senza dover aspettare una risposta. Una vittoria immediata per tutti.

Questa funzionalità è geniale. Grazie, Discourse. Sono davvero sorpreso che piattaforme concorrenti come [Vanilla Forums non abbiano questa funzionalità nel nucleo](https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/262187).

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [15 Gennaio 2021, 7:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/8 "2021-01-15T07:42:52Z")

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> [@dandv](#):
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> I gruppi Facebook sono _pieni_ della stessa domanda ripetuta all’infinito.

Sì, e questo porta gli utenti a diventare pigri ed evitare la ricerca perché sono abituati alla situazione di Facebook e si limitano a “postare senza pensare”.

La situazione su Discourse è molto, molto migliore, ma mi trovo ancora a dover gestire molti utenti abituati alle interazioni in stile Facebook, quindi a volte è necessario uno sforzo esplicito da parte dei moderatori per ricordare le cose.

Detto questo, non è affatto scontato che l’interfaccia di Discourse possa fare di più in questo senso. Ci sono già molti suggerimenti: forse una tooltip che rimbalza sull’icona di ricerca quando passi il mouse sul pulsante “Nuovo argomento”?! 😅

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [19 Gennaio 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/which-discourse-features-are-most-valuable-to-you-as-a-community-manager/83510/9 "2021-01-19T22:29:36Z")

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Esatto, e stavo appena discutendo di questo in alcuni dei miei precedenti messaggi di oggi riguardo a “perché gli utenti continuano a pubblicare argomenti duplicati, ripetutamente?”

È un problema _molto_ difficile e, onestamente, la soluzione principale è rendere molto più difficile pubblicare nuovi argomenti, almeno in alcune categorie… molto più attrito.
