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It was my understanding that you couldn’t have multiple topics all with the exact same wording. Is this correct? Or not?
I wanted to pin a topic thread to the top of our page that people who want to have extraneous chat could post to...but now we have 3 topics all with the same name...
Since ?I wrote them all , I know they are written exactly the same.?
Other than replying to the topic, is there a way to manage this?
Joan C

Joan,

You can lock the topic - use the little menu from the bottom of the message. Then re-use the topic by creating a new post. Any replies to the new message go to the new message.

I just tested it and it works.

Frances

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 04:46 PM, Joan C wrote:

It was my understanding that you couldn’t have multiple topics all with the exact same wording. Is this correct? Or not?

If you're referring to the Subject line, that's not strictly correct.

See??for the definitive answer.

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Bruce?
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Joan,

It was my understanding that you couldn’t have multiple topics all
with the exact same wording. Is this correct? Or not?

As you've discovered, "not correct".

Since I wrote them all , I know they are written exactly the same.

If you wrote each using "New Topic" that will make each their own topic. Reply would make the new post thread with the topic you reply to.

Similar rules apply when posting by email, but it gets a little more complicated due to fact that Groups.io can't tell if the message was sent by the equivalent of New Topic (with a copied subject) or was in fact a reply but the sending service didn't provide the conventional fields for a reply (in the message's header).

Other than replying to the topic, is there a way to manage this?

You can merge them.
/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/How-to-Merge-Threads

Shal


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Thanks for the help. I don’t think locking the topic will solve our problem and merging multiple conversations that will continue forever would be a lot of work. It’s possible a sub group might be the answer....will have to see how those work.?
Joan C

Joan,

... merging multiple conversations that will continue forever
would be a lot of work. It’s possible a sub group might be the

Perhaps I don't have a clear picture of your use case.

You want to pin a topic containing an ongoing conversation, yet not form the conversation by replies?

If what you're posting is akin to an index of available chats perhaps it should be a single post that you edit periodically.

If what you're posting is akin to a periodic "free-for-all" topic where members can stray from the normal group topic maybe it needn't be pinned or merged.

An example is the "Groups.io site updates #changelog" set of posts in GMF. I create each as a New Topic (via email) and initially sought a way to gather them as a single topic. Then I realized that would be ungainly for members to use: eventually the latest one would be at the bottom of a very long topic full of stale ones.

So instead I rely on the hashtag #changelog to make them all findable, if a member wants to refer to the old ones.

It’s possible a sub group might be the answer....

Possibly.

That is a common choice in forum structures, where casual, off-topic, or meta-topic conversations can be had outside of the main forum. Sometimes these are referred to as cafe or lounge areas.

An advantage of using a subgroup for this is that the extraneous postings are not presented to (or emailed to) the main members, unless they join the subgroup. And in the subgroup each member has a separate set of subscription controls - a member could receive individual messages from the main group, for example, but digests from the subgroup.

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And then there's the Chat feature. But that may be a wholly different thing than what you have in mind.

Shal


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