Discussions are main types of content used within a
SharePoint 2013 community site. A single discussion acts as a starting
point for users to publicly ask a question or make a comment and for
other site members to reply to the question or add their own thoughts.
When you first author a discussion, you can create a basic title to
the post, categorize the discussion, and then you can attach a detailed
body to the post that includes rich text, images, or even multimedia.
After you have authored a discussion, you can also return and edit the
original discussion post.
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On the Home page of a Community Site of which you are a member, click the New Discussion button.
Tip
You should generally reserve edits to your original discussion to
grammatical corrections or quick corrections made immediately after
your original post. Because other members can respond to your
discussion, you don’t want to change your original text too much, or
members who follow the discussion might become confused by replies that
are invalidated by your changes.
Tip
When you flag a discussion as a question, you make it possible for
one of the replies to be selected as a best reply for the reference of
other users. Moderators can also more easily find your discussion and
help provide an answer if it is not addressed in a timely fashion.
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On the New Discussion page, type a title for the new discussion.
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Enter text for the body of the discussion.
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While you are editing the body of the discussion, the Format Text
contextual tab automatically appears on the ribbon. Use the tools on
this tab to apply rich-text formatting to your content.
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If you want to indicate that this discussion is a query, select the Question check box.
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Select a category for the discussion.
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Click the Save button to post your discussion to the site.
