Would the community be adverse to me putting up a pinned post which basically

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Would the community be adverse to me putting up a pinned post which basically contains the stuff under “About Community”? – This has bugged me for a while. The “About Community” section used to be prominently displayed, and gave at-a-glance information on the community, as well as rules to abide by when posting, etc.

Since the redesign of G+, they’ve managed to hide all of that and I end up removing legitimate posts because we don’t allow the community be used as a ‘link bin’ (posting just a link and not saying anything about it)

I’ve been worried about putting up a pinned post like this because it might annoy mobile users - who might want to be more focused on the newest content in the community. I just wanted to run it by everyone here who participates and check if it’s a good or bad idea.

The pinned post, theoretically, would be about as long as this probably. I could probably include links to places like Cohesion3D, Printrbot, etc who have owners who participate and help in this community.

What are your opinions? I’m going to pin this post for a day or two just so people on mobile/desktop can see what a pinned post acts like and to garner a little bit more input (because even lurkers deserve to be heard)

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So a pinned post will only show up at the top of the page if you actually go to the community itself. It may show up in our feed once but that would be it. Personally I don’t have an issue with it but like I said, it’ll only really show up in the community itself. So it really shouldn’t bug anyone too much and if people actually go to the community to join, they would be much more likely to see it. I say do it.

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I’m on a desktop PC. The About Community is fully visible.

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@Kleinfeld_Technical yeah it’s visible but people often don’t realize that the rules are there. If he were to pin it, you’d see it right at the top of the community.

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Doesn’t matter to me. Should we turn this post into a poll?

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@Adam_Steinmark no. Polls generally don’t work out as well as actual comments. I’ve made a bunch of polls in my community and comments always seems to yield better results.

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It seems to me the name entails it all. Why any clarifications?

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I think a pinned post will be much more visible. It’s a good idea, and maybe disable comments on it.

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I think it’s a good idea to pin the post. Most of the folks that would break the rules will ignore it anyway, but at least they’re there in the open.

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Since I rarely browse the community itself, I doubt I will see it after your initial post unless I participate in discussion on the post or plus 1 the post. Feel free. Forums have done this for ages.

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Regarding the people with good content that was available via a shortened link, I would often comment on the post telling them it needs a non-shortened link and if it was in the hold queue I would tell them ot would stay there until it was fixed. That is how I handled it when I was a moderator.

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Shortened links are a malware attack vector. I agree that blocking them is good. Also, I think the pinned post is s good idea.

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@SirGeekALot That’s exactly why we don’t allow people to use them. This isn’t twitter where they are needed, G+ allows almost unlimited lines of text.

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@Kleinfeld_Technical do you really define “fully visible” as “collapsed by default and not actually visible at all”?

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@ThantiK were you thinking something in these lines…?
https://plus.google.com/communities/102777312869306592721

sticky post on general 3d printing could get very, very long… if you consider linking support for one printer/company, others should not be neglected.

i admit, i got lazy with updates on latest parts links, but it’s also true that noone asked or pasted link in comments to add… ( except first few months). purely user based (they are following), but they added link in sales page.
http://plus.google.com/communities/102777312869306592721

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However tiring it may be, I would suggest to have the date included in the first line of the sticky post and that any major revisions be new posts with the replaced posts having the sticky feature removed. This should help people realize they need to read it instead of assuming it was what they read before and it should help stream readers see the updates.

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@Marko_Novak How is that automatically uncollapsed? Is it just so short that it doesn’t do it?

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@ThantiK not sure what you mean…
on my phone sticky shows first 5 lines, rest of the posts 3. haven’t logged on PC for a while :wink:

editing on phone (specific copy/paste links), can cause loss of new line, so that line gets added to link ending breaking it.
when space is added before each line beginning, this is prevented.

maybe this interferes in some way… I’m not sure.

edit:
or did you mean my comment?
maybe picture link has something to do with it…