Ability to prevent send messages on pinned forum posts

[treeben77]

This is my first discussion I've created here so I'm sorry if I've done something wrong.

The ability to disable messages being sent in a pinned forum post would be great. Obviously this would be optional to enable, but could suit many different use cases:

• Creating FAQs for forum topics, without other members sending messages to make it get lost
• Use it to show instructions for posting messages (which I know some users do)
• Provide other useful information that doesn't fit in the rules.
• Post announcements (like best artwork of the month in a artwork channel)

[SuperSajuuk]

The API does kinda support this behaviour if you use a bot to edit the forum thread with both sticky and close attributes set to True. However, this only allows one single thread and the client doesn't natively permit this. I agree, this should be a feature because it is a staple of actual forums where you can create sticky-read only threads (and note the pluralisation).

Post Guidelines are not really somewhere to put lots of information about the channel, because its unlikely to be read: a thread that says READ ME FIRST BEFORE POSTING HERE is going to catch attention over the posting guidelines. especially since "Post Guidelines" implies its only going to tell you about the rules of the channel. In lots of cases, this may not be useful, especially if you're using a forum channel for technical support where you want multiple stickies about known issues [for example].

[treeben77]

I didn't know you could do that with the api! I'll have a look at that

[IllagerCaptain]

This is now possible with the addition of locked active threads.