The Discussions tab provides comprehensive control over your community's discussion threads through advanced filtering, sorting, and moderation capabilities. This guide explains how to efficiently manage and create discussions using the various tools available in this tab.
Finding and Organizing Discussions
The Discussions tab offers powerful tools to help you quickly locate and organize content based on your specific needs. You can filter discussions using ID, label, or URL searches, set date ranges to focus on specific time periods, and show or hide deleted content as needed. The flexible sorting options let you arrange discussions by post count or creation date in your preferred order, while the posts count slider helps you focus on discussions with particular engagement levels. These intuitive filtering and sorting tools work together to help you efficiently manage even the busiest community forums.
Managing Community Content
The Discussions tab provides essential moderation capabilities that help you maintain a healthy community environment. You can easily create new discussions to initiate important conversations, moderate discussion content to ensure it meets your community standards, and remove inappropriate or outdated discussions when necessary. Within each discussion, you can also perform bulk actions on multiple posts simultaneously, saving you time while maintaining consistent content quality. The visual guide below provides step-by-step instructions for using each of these features effectively.
Detailed Step-by-Step Instructions
Below you'll find comprehensive guidance for performing every possible action in the Discussions tab, with visual examples to help you navigate the interface effectively.
Creating New Discussions
Launch fresh conversation threads in three simple steps:
- Click "Create discussion"
- Enter your discussion details
- Publish with a single click on 'Create'
Filtering Discussions
Quickly locate specific content:
- Use the search fields at the top of the page
- Select filtering criteria from the dropdown menus
- Set date ranges if needed
- Toggle "Show deleted discussions" to include deleted content
Sorting Discussions
Organize discussions for easier management:
- Click on the "Sort by" dropdown
- Choose your preferred sorting method
- Adjust posts count slider to narrow results
Viewing Discussion Posts
Access all posts within a discussion:
- Locate the discussion you want to explore
- Click to reveal all posts
- Browse through all content in the thread
Moderating & Deleting Discussions
Moderate all Posts in Discussions or delete discussions when needed:
- Locate your target discussion
- Click "Moderate all posts" or 'Delete'
- Moderation - Enter Moderation Reason
- Delete - Confirm Deletion
Individual & Bulk Post Actions
Process multiple posts within a discussion simultaneously:
- Expand the discussion to view all posts
- Select posts using the checkboxes on the left
- Click the "Moderate selected posts" or "Pin selected posts" button
- Apply your selected action to all checked posts at once
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