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:

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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You are now a member of @moderators !

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RIP Uncle Ben. :spider: