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Explain the options available with discussions

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- [Instructor] What are some of the marketing features of GitHub Discussions that we need to know for the GitHub Foundations exam? We've got categories. You'll see all this in the demo, no need to read all of these bullet points. Posts and replies, upvoting, oh, mark as answer. That's especially important for the exam. In Q&A categories, a comment can be marked as the accepted solution. Does that sound familiar to you? It should. What we've got with GitHub Discussions is a really nice rollup of traditional web bulletin boards or discussion forums. A little bit of Stack Overflow type goodness, but it's, again, it's its own thing. It definitely will feel very much like Stack Overflow in places or like Reddit and others. That's all intentional. And then, depending upon your level of access in the repo, if you've been boosted to be a moderator, you can delegate administration to those who otherwise don't have the ability to push code into the repo. We want to think about, at least at some…

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