I want to make a post that serves as a reference post for people in the survey strategy category. Folks have had a hard time finding particular topics, so I wanted to provide some guidance through the timeline of forum posts (kind of add an extra dimension, I guess?).
It seems like a pinned post becomes unpinned as soon as you read it? Is this just something about my settings or is it for everyone? Is there something else I can do to keep my ‘pinned’ post at an easy to reach and obvious spot? Do I need to make it a banner? (this seems like it makes the post float at the top of every page when people read topics, and I don’t think that’s quite what I was wanting either). Or is there something else?
That’s right. Aside from teaching folks to keep that topic pinned (and possibly undoing their own personal preferences regarding pins), I’m not sure pins are a solid solution for keeping a topic above the fold long-term. Specifically, we can’t unilaterally change the pin preferences for existing users.
I did add a link to the post from the category description, though since Survey Strategy is a subcategory, that description isn’t highlighted on the homepage. @MelissaGraham, perhaps we can think about whether “Science” as a parent category might be unpacked such that its current subcategories become top-level categories? That could be useful as we reorient the forum for ops.
I think there’s a way to modify the theme such that the category description (which would link to the highlights topic) appears at the top of the page when browsing a category’s posts. I’ll do a bit more work to see if we can make that happen.
In the meantime, I turned Community Survey Strategy Highlights into a wiki to make it easier to continually update. Let me know if that doesn’t work for you and I can revert it.
So far I have not found a way to make a post that is unpinnable by users, though, so banners seem like the answer here. Unless, @jsick, if you find a way to make the category description always appear at the top, that sounds even better (because then we don’t have to make banner content for all categories).
