Posts to Community but newbies

I noticed a few recent instances where a newbie has posted to ‘community’.

e.g. How to delete templates? - #6 by Btalex99

The problem is that this is the wrong place, is a moderated channel, requiring confirmation but also does not allow a post to by redirected, at least not by me!

I have no problem with Community being moderated etc - it was designed for internal community announcements but can we somehow make it clear that this ios not for newbie questions or make post redirects easier , or …??

Maybe call it something else? If it’s for announcements I suggest we call it “Announcements” :grin:

I agree wbut we still need a way of moving mis-posts to an appropriate forum, Who acts as moderator to approve the posts currently?

Mea culpa - that one was me certainly, but I don’t think there’s any way of redirecting a post, other than rejecting it and asking the OP to try again. @marcusbaw?

We have (or some of us do) that facility in other channels

Reassigning the Category of any Topic is trivial for @staff - they can edit the title of the Topic, which allows them to change the Category.

Currently moderation is done by anyone in @moderators as well as @admins. (Collectively, @staff) You can view the membership of these groups by clicking on the @mention then the group name in the ‘card’ that pops up.

Additional, Per-Category moderators.

We can also add groups of users to be moderators of a specific category as per these settings, which reflect the current settings of Community :

I’m happy to work with @staff and keen community members to establish whatever controls are needed on specific categories.

Thanks @marcusbaw . Im happy to volunteer.

Maybe a name change to Announcements would help, along with a stricter moderation and redirect policy.

@Pete_Bouvier … i wasn’t having a go honest! Ive done the same in the past. It is not a huge problem but it means that any replies also need to be moderated and the post is likely to have lower visibilty if it is not in the right place.

No worries, Ian. :smiley:
You should be moderating though - you know your way around this place better than most.

You are now a member of @moderators !

RIP Uncle Ben. :spider: