Admins can close discussion

Group admins have been able to hide messages for some time. As another moderation tool, I've made it so that group admins can now close a topic.

If you're an admin, the button is on the right of each talk post, as the last option. The message members get looks like the other image here.

>1 timspalding: I'm not seeing it. Where exactly am I supposed to look?

>2 amanda4242: Nor can I. Also, where is it that an admin can hide a message?

Does the topic have to have a certain number of posts or be of a certain age for the button to appear?
Because I'm not seeing it.

Open “More” within a posting in a group you administer. Admin Actions is now a choice.

Huh. That only has something about messaging. I don’t know what that does.

>5 2wonderY: More on a message is a message specific item. Unless Tim chose to bury it there.
But I'm also not seeing it there.

>5 2wonderY:

Go to the post, then "More", then "Admin Actions". You should see "Hidden" and "Removed" as options.

This discussion was closed: https://www.librarything.com/topic/379386

>8 timspalding: Okay. Now where can I find the option to close a discussion in the group I admin?

>8 timspalding: Your example is where the site admin could close down a thread. But the interface for group admins seems to not have pushed through yet. I've looked at threads in two groups I admin, and I can't find the button to close them.

Huh. Okay. Will look at.

>12 timspalding:

Fixed. It was within an area that has some LT-admin-only buttons. It's outside of that now.

>12 timspalding: Where exactly is it supposed to show up?

I do not see it anywhere (not next to Pin, not down in the Administer area).

>12 timspalding: >13 AnnieMod:

Never mind - it just showed up under Administer.

However - now I am missing the Edit Topic (the ability to change the title of a topic (due to typos and what's not).

Can we please get this back?

>14 AnnieMod:

Yes, we definitely need that back! That's probably used far more than the "close topic" will be. I'm thinking particularly of the "Name that Book" group, where one of the primary things the admin does is change topic titles.

>12 timspalding: I still don't see it.

>13 AnnieMod: >14 AnnieMod: I also hope this feature comes back!

The close topic option is cool, but I really need the edit topic button back! I use that one all the time.

>16 DebiCates:

Go to the topic, and it's over on the right, under "Administer".

It should be up now. And the edit topic should be back.

(Give it 5m to go live.)

>19 timspalding: Thank you!

>19 timspalding: I can see both now! Thanks!

The edit slipped under the site-admin thing.

>18 lilithcat: Thanks! I had to scroll down to see it. I expected it on the right side under the the admin heading.

Would it be possible to add an icon to thread titles to show they're closed? I'm thinking a little lock on the left, like how pinned topics have a pin icon.

>24 amanda4242:

That is a really good idea.

>24 amanda4242: Great idea, especially since there's still that hardcore group of proxy seekers and slackers coming here.

>25 lilithcat: I can think of one thread in particular that needs to be closed!

>27 clamairy:

If it's in a group that I'm an admin for, let me know and I'll close it. Otherwise, let the group's admin know.

>28 lilithcat: It's not your group. I see one of the LT staff members posted yesterday that they will ask Tim to close that thread.

>29 clamairy: If it is the one, I'm thinking about, amanda4242 is not LT staff as far as I know.

>30 bnielsen: Ahh, you are correct. My mistake. And still that thread drags on. As for those who keep telling the rest of us to ignore it, it's much like passing a car wreck on the highway. It takes more willpower than I can muster to look away.

>30 bnielsen:

It's the second time in the history of that thread that someone mistakes amanda4242 for a staff member, lol

>31 clamairy: When I say ignore, I'm referring to using the Ignore feature, not to an effort of willpower that I myself am unable to muster!

Is this in a particular group, I suspect?

>33 anglemark: But even tapping on the X requires willpower. And if I had done that earlier I would have missed @MrAndrew's gem of a post.

I find that I am using the x less often now. If I had done that in one topic I would have missed that I had upset one of the kids, but that others had flagged his attacks so that in less than 10 minutes the two messages each had 3 flags and the member was removed. That pleased me a lot more than the illiterate attacks bothered me.

>24 amanda4242: Would it be possible to add an icon to thread titles to show they're closed? I'm thinking a little lock on the left, like how pinned topics have a pin icon.

Done.

>37 timspalding: Thank you!

>37 timspalding: Thank you both for the new icon, and for using it on one particular topic.