Members can promote posts to articles

Discussion in 'Admin Talk Support & Feedback' started by GTB, Apr 1, 2012.

  1. GTB

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    Not sure if you've intended for things to be setup this way. But have the ability it seems (as a member) to promote your (admin) posts to an Article. Maybe you've done it that way on purpose, not sure. But it means any member can do that with anyone else's post making it an article. Would have thought you'd want that reserved for staff use only?

    Seems I'm even able to edit your post before doing so as well. I didn't promote it to an article, just showing you that I could have, along with editing it! Could easy have wrecked your post and stuck it in the wrong article section if you get my drift, so could any other regular member.
     

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    That's the way I have it set up. Registered members and up have the ability. However the default member group doesn't. In fact default group can't do much except post.
     
  3. GTB

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    Fair enough, just though it seemed a little risky. I just tried it out on a post of yours that's gone well past "post editing time", yet can still edit it and promote to an article if I wished. Meaning the option is always there to do it, posts editing time has no effect on stopping promoting posts to articles. Unlike my own posts that's stops me from editing them after a certain time passes. But if that's how you like it setup, each to their own way.
     

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