Topics
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Topics are one of the most fundamental aspects of any Common community as it is the main tool for organising the forum that exists within the Common community. It is therefore important to carefully consider which topics you would like to include in the forum.
For more information on Topic best practices, check out the Organizing Topics page under Community Best Practices here.
To create, manage, and edit topics, navigate to the “topics” page found on the left hand sidebar under the Admin Capabilities tab. This page is only accessible to moderators & admins.
Within the topics page there are two drawers labelled “Create a Topic” and “Manage Topics.” In the create topic drawer there is 4 fields that you can customise. These are:
Topic Name
This is the only required field for creating a topic
Topic Description:
This is meant to communicate in more detail what the purpose of this topic is. The topic description will appear at the top of the topic page in the forum.
Featured in Sidebar Checkbox
Checking this box means that the topic will be visible in the community sidebar where users can navigate directly to the topic with one click. It is highly recommended to choose this option as not featuring a topic makes it significantly more difficult to navigate directly to this topic.
Include in Topic Thread template Checkbox
This is where you can set pre-existing templates for when someone goes to create a thread in this topic.
Once you’ve clicked the checkbox, a text editor to appear which is where you will be able to create this pre-existing thread template.
Once you’ve added all of the required information click the “save” button on the bottom right to create the topic. You can always edit this topic by clicking the pencil icon in the “Manage Topics” drawer.
After clicking "Next," you'll be given the option create a weighted topic which enables token wighted upvotes within the topic. Weighted topics are necessary for running contests.
There are 2 weighted voting options:
ERC20 or Native token: Connect any ERC20 token as the token for weighted upvoting
Community Stake: If enabled, you can weight upvotes by how much community stake the upvoter has
Once you've picked which weighted option you'd like to add to this topic, you can choose how many upvotes 1 token is gives the upvoter.
To organize or edit current topics, navigate to the “Manage Topics” drawer in the Topics page.
The order in which topics appear in the “Manage Topics” drawer corresponds with their order in the left sidebar. To reorganise their order in the left sidebar simply click on the hamburger button next to the topics name & drag it to where you’d like it to appear in the order.
Each topic in this drawer will have a pencil icon next to its name. Clicking this pencil icon will allow you to:
Edit Topic: Edit any of the content or options that you previously selected when creating the topics. This includes editing topic name, topic description, toggling featured in sidebar, and changing thread template options
Archiving: Archiving topics moves the topic as well as all of its associated threads and comments to the archive section of the community. This is good for organising the forum ensuring only relevant content is shown to the community while keeping older conversations accessible
Deleting Topic: Clicking this button will delete the topic and move all of its associate threads to the general topic. It is recommended to reassign threads to other topics when deleting a topic with threads in it to keep the forum organised.
