Restricted postings in certain categories

[patcon]

I got an email about this post by @decentral1se in the Co-op Liaisons category:

Make it possible to @ specific coops on the forum

I don’t believe that there is the ability in Discourse to have aliases in the manner in which email aliases work. All I can suggest for the moment is if the Example Co-operative, example.coop, had a general contact email address such as contact@example.coop then a Discourse account with the username Example could be created and then you could @Example and this would trigger an email to contact@example.coop. You could suggest / urge co-ops to setup accounts like this I guess?

I did some small research, and wished to share what I knew about Discoure’s Groups, in case it was helpful

Allow groups to be mentioned and sent messages

But it seems this small category (of which this is the first post) is restricted and I cannot speak. I just wanted to express in a friendly way that this feels like over-zealous use of a forum feature, and it doesn’t feel clear what purpose it serves. I’d humbly suggest it feels more likely to be a disservice.

Thanks for considering

[decentral1se]

Oh right, yeah, I just tried to pick the right category for the post. Didn’t know it is restricted.

Thanks for the info!

[decentral1se]

Should be open now!

Make it possible to @ specific coops on the forum

Thanks @chris. Good idea. I might carry this over to Restricted postings in certain categories - #3 by decentral1se to make it public as this category seemse to stopping people giving input.

[chris (Chris Croome)]

@decentral1se

Should be open now!

FWIW I believe it was intentionally set up so that only people in CoTech co-ops, rather than anyone who creates an account, could post in it — it wasn’t an accident, I believe it was discussed and set up during the last CoTech gathering in Newcastle, but has subsequently not been used.