# Learning about Discourse itself

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/learning-about-discourse-itself/990>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [May 6, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/learning-about-discourse-itself/990 "2019-05-06T09:28:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![consideRatio](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/consideratio/32/1033_2.png) [@consideRatio](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/consideRatio)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/learning-about-discourse-itself/990/1 "2019-05-06T09:28:56Z")

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@codinghorror and @Dax at [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) provided me with excellent resources and suggestions on where to find even more that I browsed through. Here is a summary.

### New user guide

> **[Discourse New User Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331)**
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> Welcome! As a new user of Discourse, we hope you will find this site intuitive and clearly structured, but here is some guidance to get you started: Basic Terms Used by Discourse Browsing the Forum Topic lists See who is participating ...

### A guide for moderators

> **[Discourse Moderation Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116)**
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> So you’re a moderator on a Discourse forum - congratulations! As a forum moderator, it’s your role to help oversee the forum, ensuring that users and content are in line with your TOS, FAQ, and other published rules/guidelines. Discourse comes with...

### Useful topics for staff

- [How to use **category security** settings to control access to content](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-category-security-settings-to-control-access-to-content/87678/1)
- [How do I create a **whisper post**?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-create-a-whisper-post/44247)
- [How to create **Polls**](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548)
- [How to create a **Timed Topic**](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-a-timed-topic/60731)
- [What is a **Wiki Post**?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-wiki-post/30801/1)
- [What are **Topic Templates**?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-topic-templates/38295)
- [What are **Badges**](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-badges/32540)
- [What are **Flags** and how do they work?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-flags-and-how-do-they-work/32783)
- [Description of various **user states** in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/description-of-various-user-states-in-discourse/35171)
- [What is the difference between **Closed, Unlisted and Archived topics**?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-difference-between-closed-unlisted-and-archived-topics/51238)
- [Discourse vs email and mailing lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-email-mailing-lists/54298)

More guides are available in the [#howto](https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto/faq?order=views) category. I linked it sorted by views as well to help you find the most useful ones.

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**Author:** ![choldgraf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/choldgraf/32/1264_2.png) [@choldgraf](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/choldgraf)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/learning-about-discourse-itself/990/2 "2019-05-06T15:01:31Z")

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@consideRatio this is awesome! What do you think about creating a channel in meta/howto that is scoped for the Jupyter Discourse page. I feel like that’d be a little bit more discoverable than using a tag (which is kinda what we’re doing now). Any thoughts on that?

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**Author:** ![consideRatio](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/consideratio/32/1033_2.png) [@consideRatio](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/consideRatio)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/learning-about-discourse-itself/990/3 "2019-05-06T18:17:22Z")

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Sure! I wonder if you can turn all posts for a certain tag into a category? Will look into that.

UPDATE: If I’d self-hosted this deployment of discourse I’d know how to do it, but not now. But, we can move these post manually with ease.

I’m trying to make it all concrete in my mind, and this is what I came up with.

1. We make a sub-category, someplace, scoped to help users of the forum use it well.
2. We create a pinned post for that sub-category that suggests some stuff, something similar to this but perhaps less exhaustive.

Eh… Hmmmm, but a lot of resources are referenced to other resources still I guess. Assuming we can move around all the posts we want without issues, how would you like things structured?

PS: Moving a category or subcategory, or renaming them etc are super easy and won’t break links to topics within them.

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**Author:** ![choldgraf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/choldgraf/32/1264_2.png) [@choldgraf](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/choldgraf)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/learning-about-discourse-itself/990/4 "2019-05-06T18:51:41Z")

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Yep - I think the step to re-organize would be:

1. Create the sub-category
2. Display all the posts w/ the “how-to” tag
3. Select all the posts and batch-move to the new category
4. Remove the tag