From 420e3021f9f65533eb6ea60a9ee3495bad48ca8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Diekershoff Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:42:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] clarification to the forum docs --- doc/Forums.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/Forums.md b/doc/Forums.md index 2eac81a722..54e8e38791 100644 --- a/doc/Forums.md +++ b/doc/Forums.md @@ -53,9 +53,12 @@ Posting to Community forums If you are a member of a community forum, you may post to the forum by including an @-tag in the post mentioning the forum. For example @bicycle would send my post to all members of the group "bicycle" in addition to the normal recipients. -If your post is private you must also explicitly include the group in the post permissions (to allow the forum "contact" to see the post) **and** mention it in a tag (which redistributes the post to the forum members). +If you mention a forum (you are a member of) in a new posting, the posting will be distributed to all members of the forum, regardless of your privacy settings for the posting. +Also, if the forum is a public forum, your posting will be public for the all internet users. +If your post is private you must also explicitly include the group in the post permissions (to allow the forum "contact" to see the post) **and** mention it in a tag (which redistributes the post to the forum members). +Posting privately to a public forum, will result in your posting being displayed on the forum wall, but not on yours. -You may also post to a community forum by posting a "wall-to-wall" post using secure cross-site authentication. +You may also post to a community forum by posting a "wall-to-wall" post using secure cross-site authentication. Comments which are relayed to community forums will be relayed back to the original post creator. Mentioning the forum with an @-tag in a comment does not relay the message, as distribution is controlled entirely by the original post creator. -- 2.39.5