Community moderator experience

Community provides forum owners and moderators with tools to manage ideas, comments, votes, and user feedback, helping ensure discussions remain productive, relevant, and respectful.

Moderate content in Customer Service Community

Forum owners and moderators can use Customer Service Community to manage and moderate content, and can do the following tasks:

Edit a forum's name and description
Edit the idea name and description, and update fields, including category, group, and stage
Add a new moderator response to an idea
Manage comments, including adding a moderator response to a comment, and manage comment flags
Manage idea votes
Manage idea flags

Forum owners have full control over forums and collections, while moderators can manage ideas, comments, votes, and flags within the forums they're assigned to.

Follow these steps to moderate Community content:

Navigate to the forum, and then select the Forum tab.
Update the forum Name and Description.
Select the Ideas tab, and then select the idea you want to edit.
Update the fields as desired. You can also add a Moderator Response and select Response Generic Author. Response Generic Author enables you to associate a generic role to your response in the Community website, rather than show your name. Your admin manages the list of generic roles.
To manage idea votes, select the Votes tab. Each user can cast a single upvote or remove their vote.
From the website, end-users can flag ideas as inappropriate. Forum owners and moderators can go to Flags tab to view and manage idea flags.
Go to the Comments tab to manage end-user comments. Under Active comments on idea, select the comment you want to edit, and then select Edit.
Under Moderator Response, in the Comments field, type the desired response. Go to the Flags tab to manage flags on this comment.

Create collections

To combine duplicate or related ideas, forum owners and moderators can create a collection. Successfully created collections are shown on the Community website. All associated ideas, also called child ideas, are merged into the collection and no longer appear as active ideas. Users who contributed to the child ideas can still view them in read-only mode on the My Content page.

To create a collection, complete the following steps:

On the left-side navigation pane, select Collections, and then select + New.
Select the forum you want to combine ideas from, and then select Next.
Select the plus sign (+) to add ideas from Active ideas in this forum list to the collection. Utilize search in long lists. Added ideas show in the Collection ideas list.
When you're done adding ideas, select Next.
Add a Title and Description for the new collection. You can also copy these fields from one of the child ideas.
Optional: You can select the Stage, Group, and Category, and then select Next.
Confirm that the details are correct, and then select Finish.
Wait for the status of the new collection to change from In-progress to Success. Refresh the page to get the latest status.