Moderating discussions

About moderating discussions

GitHub Discussions is an open forum for conversation among maintainers and the community for a project on GitHub. If you have triage permissions for a repository, you can help moderate a project's discussions by marking comments as answers, locking discussions that are not longer useful or are damaging to the community, and converting issues to discussions when an idea is still in the early stages of development.

Marking a comment as an answer

You can mark a comment in the discussion as an answer to the discussion if a discussion is within a category that accepts answers. For more information, see "About discussions."

When you mark a question as an answer, GitHub will highlight the comment and replies to the comment to help visitors quickly find the answer.

You can't mark a threaded comment in response to a comment as the answer to a discussion. You also can't mark a minimized comment as the answer to a discussion.

1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Discussions.
3. In the list of discussions, click the unanswered discussion you want to mark as answered.
4. In the discussion, find the comment you want to mark as the answer.
5. In the upper-right corner of the comment, click .
6. Optionally, to unmark a comment as the answer, click .

Locking discussions

It's appropriate to lock a conversation when the entire conversation is not constructive or violates your community's code of conduct or GitHub's Community Guidelines. You can also lock a conversation to prevent comments on a discussion you want to use as an announcement to the community. When you lock a conversation, people with write access to the repository will still be able to comment on the discussion.

1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
2. Under your repository name, click Discussions.
3. In the list of discussions, click the discussion you want to lock.
4. In the right margin of a discussion, click Lock conversation.
5. Read the information about locking conversations and click Lock conversation on this discussion.
6. When you're ready to unlock the conversation, click Unlock conversation, then click Unlock conversation on this discussion.

Converting an issue to a discussion

When you convert an issue to a discussion, the discussion is automatically created using the content from the issue. People with write access to a repository can bulk convert issues based on labels. For more information, see "Managing discussions in your repository."

1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

2. Under your repository name, click Issues.

   

3. In the list of issues, click the issue you'd like to convert.

4. In the right margin of an issue, click Convert to discussion.

5. Select the Choose a category drop-down menu, and click a category for your discussion.

6. Click I understand, convert this issue to a discussion.