> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.daoco.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Community conversations

> Review Reddit and Hacker News discussions worth joining, then draft a reply you hand off yourself.

daoco can watch public communities for discussions where your brand has something useful to say, and collect them in one queue for you to work through.

Open **Home**, choose the **Social** area, and open the **Conversations** tab. The tab carries a count of the items waiting on you.

## What the queue shows

The panel is headed **Conversation candidates** and says **Reply drafts stay editable. Nothing posts without you.** Under that is when daoco last searched, and a filter for **All**, **Reddit**, or **Hacker News**.

Each row gives you the platform, the community, how long ago the discussion appeared, its title as a link, a short excerpt, and a **Why this fits** line explaining why daoco surfaced it. Choose **Open conversation** to read it on the platform, or **Dismiss** to take it off the queue.

## Fill the queue

* Choose **Find now** to search immediately. daoco runs a search in the current brand and adds what it finds.
* Choose **Manage monitors** to open **Automations** and add the **Conversation Monitor**, which checks Reddit and Hacker News every two hours. See [Automations](/core-workflows/automations).

Nothing here needs a connected Reddit or Hacker News account. Discovery reads public discussions.

## Work an item

The action on a row depends on the platform:

| Platform    | Action            | What it does                                                    |
| ----------- | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Reddit      | **Draft reply**   | Opens a brand thread that writes an editable reply draft.       |
| Hacker News | **Prepare brief** | Opens a brand thread that writes a response brief, not a reply. |

Once a thread is working on an item, the action becomes **Open work** so you can return to it.

**Publishing is always yours.** daoco never posts, votes, or comments in these communities. A Reddit draft finishes in the post preview with a hand-off control in place of the publish button, so you copy the reply and post it on Reddit yourself. Hacker News gets a brief instead of finished text, because Hacker News does not allow generated or AI-edited comments; when you submit something there yourself, paste the link back so daoco can record it.

## Housekeeping

An item that sits untouched drops off the queue after two weeks. Dismissed items are cleared a month later. Neither affects the discussion on the platform.