Publishing makes an article available to its intended audience. Curation helps that audience discover especially useful work, while moderation gives space maintainers a separate way to review reported feed content. These responsibilities may involve the same article and post, but they solve different problems and have different consequences.
Curation and Moderation Are Different Decisions
Curation is an editorial choice. Adding an article or post to Expo presents it in the space's curated showcase. Adding a published article to Wiki includes it in the space's durable knowledge tree. Adding a Space Pin gives the work a prominent shortcut within its space. None of these actions edits the article, changes its author, moves it to another area, or makes it available to people who could not already access it.
Moderation is a response to a report. A report tells maintainers that a member believes a post may break a space or community rule. Maintainers review the reason and any note before deciding what should happen. A report does not automatically remove the post, and curation controls should not be used as a substitute for reviewing it.
Keep these questions separate when making a decision:
Curate Published Work
Wiki, Expo, and Space Pins improve discovery in different ways.
Expo and Space Pin are distinct discovery controls on the published post menu.
These controls are intentionally absent for drafts. A draft is unfinished, private authoring work and should not become a curated destination before publication. If a curation control is missing, first confirm that the article is published, then check whether your space role and permissions cover that action.
An article and its feed post are two views of the same published work. The article offers the full reading experience; the post introduces it in feeds. Curating from either surface does not create a second article or detach the summary from its body.
Choose the Right Discovery Surface
Use Expo for deliberate showcase curation. It is a stronger editorial signal than simply appearing in the regular post feed and is useful for work that should represent the space to visitors or returning members.
Use Wiki when a published article should remain easy to find as part of a structured body of knowledge. Its tree follows the article's current Documents location, so adding it does not create a second folder arrangement.
Use a Space Pin for convenient access inside the space. A pin is helpful for current priorities, reference material, or an article that members need to find repeatedly. Unpinning removes that shortcut; it does not unpublish or delete the work.
All three choices preserve the article's existing visibility boundary. Public-area content remains subject to its public access, while content in a protected area remains limited to people who can access that area. Curation never overrides membership or area access.
Review Reported Posts
Non-maintainers can use Report on a post when they believe it needs attention. Maintainers see a different set of controls: the member report action is hidden, and review actions become available instead.
For a reported post, the space feed gives maintainers the context needed to make a measured decision:
The report card keeps the concern and review controls beside the post being reviewed.
The grouped view keeps each pending concern separate so maintainers can review them one by one.
Ordinary members do not see this report context, report count, or maintainer review controls. This protects the review process while leaving the published post available according to its normal access rules until a maintainer acts.
Approving a report records that the content can remain. Choosing Remove from the post menu opens a removal-reason step, with space for clarification. Base either choice on the content, the selected rule, and the notes available in the review—not on whether the post is popular, featured, or pinned.
Understand the Consequences Before Acting
Curation can be reversed without changing the article itself. You can remove a Wiki membership, Expo placement, or Space Pin while leaving the article published and available through its regular feed, article route, and other permitted discovery surfaces.
Moderation decisions affect report state and the reported post's presence in the feed. When several reports are pending, review the list rather than assuming they all describe the same issue. Resolving one report reduces the pending review work; other pending reports may still need a decision.
Deletion has a broader lifecycle consequence. The post and article are a shared pair. When the author or a space maintainer uses Delete, the feed post and its linked article are removed together. Do not use deletion merely to remove a Wiki membership, remove an Expo placement, clear a Space Pin, or finish reviewing one report.
Before a consequential action, confirm that you are working with the intended published item and space. The title, author, and space context on the post or article can help you recognize the correct work.
A Practical Decision Pattern
When an article needs space-level attention, begin with its current state and the outcome you want:
This sequence keeps editorial promotion, community review, and content lifecycle decisions from being mistaken for one another.
Common Questions
Can I add a draft article to Expo or pin it?
No. Expo and Space Pin controls are for published work. Drafts remain with their author until publication.
What is the difference between Expo and a Space Pin?
Expo is the space's curated showcase. A Space Pin is a prominent shortcut within the space. Both improve discovery without changing the article's content or access boundary.
How is Wiki different from Expo and a Space Pin?
Wiki is an article-only knowledge tree organized by current Documents placement. Expo showcases a broader range of selected work, while a Space Pin provides a direct shortcut.
Who can add an article to Expo?
On the article page, the space owner can add or remove a published article. On a post, Expo management is available to maintainers who have Expo permission.
Who can pin an article?
Space maintainers can pin or unpin published articles and posts from the available Space Pin controls.
Can members see why another person reported a post?
No. Report reasons, notes, pending counts, and review actions are shown to maintainers, not ordinary members.
Does one report automatically remove a post?
No. A report creates pending review work. A maintainer inspects the context and chooses the appropriate review action.
Does removing from Wiki or Expo, or unpinning, delete the article?
No. It removes that discovery placement only. The published article remains available through its other permitted surfaces.
What happens if I delete from the post menu?
The post is the feed representation of the same article. Deleting it removes the linked post and article pair.