Yeah. Well, not that they cannot be posted, but that they will not be frontpaged by the mods, and instead kept in the personal blog / community section, which has less visibility.
Posts that focus on the EA community itself are given a “community” tag. By default, these posts will be hidden from the list of posts on the Forum’s front page. You can change how these posts are displayed by using...
To clarify, Halstead, “Community” is now a tag, not a category on the level of “Frontpage”. Posts tagged “Community” will still either be “Frontpage” or “Personal Blog”.
This comment is a bit out of date (though I think it was made before I made this edit). The current language is:
Posts that focus on the EA community itself are given a “community” tag. By default, these posts will have a weighting of “-25″ on the Forum’s front page (see below), appearing only if they have a lot of upvotes.
We don’t hide all “community” posts by default, but they will generally be less prominent on the front page unless a user changes the weighting themselves.
Yeah. Well, not that they cannot be posted, but that they will not be frontpaged by the mods, and instead kept in the personal blog / community section, which has less visibility.
Added: As it currently says on the About page:
Ok, the post is still labelled as ‘front page’ in that case, which seems like it should be changed
To clarify, Halstead, “Community” is now a tag, not a category on the level of “Frontpage”. Posts tagged “Community” will still either be “Frontpage” or “Personal Blog”.
This comment is a bit out of date (though I think it was made before I made this edit). The current language is:
We don’t hide all “community” posts by default, but they will generally be less prominent on the front page unless a user changes the weighting themselves.