• Click the Action Menu icon (), and next to the Metadata option (), click edit.
• Title
  • You can change the title, but this might confuse people who have already posted to the thread.
• Data Type
  • show titles
  • show dates (created, modified)
  • sort
    • By default, posts will appear in the order in which they were created, but you can change this if you want. For example, to do a poll, you might create two or more posts describing the options, and then invite people to rank the options. Then you might decide to sort by rank, so that everybody can see how the voting is going.
  • visibility requires my approval
    • You can choose to have new posts hidden from public view until you approve them. Posts awaiting approval will only be visible to the moderators and to the user who created the post. If you click the "light bulb" icon (), the post will become visible to everybody.
  • show rank icons on title line
    • This displays an icon on the title line revealing the average of the rankings that people have assigned.
  • editing time-out
    • If you don't want people to be able to edit their posts after a certain period of time, set this to a non-zero number.
  • eligible to rank posts
    • If you want to control who can cast votes, select something other than the Registered group for this.
• Rights
  • You can control who can see the thread, and who can post to it, by editing the rights.
  • You can ban users from posting to your thread by setting negative rights in the Adders field.
  • To lock a thread, preventing further posts, remove anybody specified in the Adders field.