@TimMagee Hello 
and welcome to the 
community. We’re thrilled to have you here 
Thank you for your message and feedback on Discourse. We apologize for any inconvenience you experienced while trying to start a new topic. Please refer to this post for answers on starting a new topic. 
We appreciate your suggestion to have the levels help in a pinned post and also the idea of marking topics as “already answered” is a great, and we’ll explore implementing it while ensuring that the previous thread is linked. 
If you have further questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. We’re here to help. 
Veda | Community team