Moderation: Off-Topic Posts

Labelling an idea as Off-topic

Path: Customization >> Customize Site Behavior >> General >> Show "Off Topic" Link Alongside Campaigns

IdeaScale offers a way to label certain posts as Off-Topic. When ideas are labeled as Off-Topic, the idea is placed into a special category in a different part of your community. This category is not included in the Hot Ideas or Recent Ideas view. This is a great technique for moving controversial ideas off to a separate part of your community, without completely deleting the idea (and thus running into free speech issues).

 
The community administrator has the ability to show or hide Off-Topic links alongside campaigns in the right navigation of the community home page from given path:

Mark an idea as Off-topic
Marking an idea as off-topic is a way in which we label the idea. Once logged in as a moderator, click the Flag icon, and then choose Off-Topic from the dropdown menu.

Idea submitter may be notified by idea status change email notification when Idea Stage change to Off-topic stage 

Learn more about Custom Labels

Remove Off-topic label

To remove the idea from Off-topic, simply change the stage of the idea.