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Using Connections 8.0
Welcome to the HCL Connections documentation site, where you can find information about Connections. Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Forums
Share information, brainstorm ideas, ask and answer questions, and discuss topics of mutual interest in a forum.
Creating and managing forums
When you are the Forums administrator or a forum owner, you can edit, delete, and lock or unlock a forum. In addition, you can pin forum topics so that they appear first in a forum.
Forum moderation
When moderation is enabled for Forums, any content that users add to forums is not displayed until it is approved by a moderator.

Forum moderation

When moderation is enabled for Forums, any content that users add to forums is not displayed until it is approved by a moderator.

A moderator for Forums can review and manage forum topics before they are published and review forum topics that are already available. In addition, when forum content is flagged as inappropriate by forum users, a notification is sent to the moderator who reviews the content and decides what action to take.

The HCL Connections administrator can specify whether moderation is managed by global moderators or by content owners. Users who are assigned to the global moderator role can manage forum content from a centralized moderation interface that is available only to them. For more information, see Moderating content.

When owner moderation is enabled, community owners can moderate community forum content from the community moderation interface. For more information about moderating community forum content, see Moderating community content.