Pause commenting
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Voters
In order to allow you to resolve National comments without having new comments being added, you can pause the commenting period.
This action will prevent the National contributors to post any new comments, they will be informed of this when opening the online document by a pop-up message as below:
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Note that during the paused commenting period:
- Voters can resolve comments and new ones
- National contributors can view all comments but cannot add new ones.
To pause the commenting period, open the menu Other tools and select Pause commenting
You can always resume the commenting period by selecting Other tools > Resume commenting