{"id":13221,"date":"2025-01-14T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T10:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/judging\/judging-process\/leaving-private-comments\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:03:10","slug":"leaving-private-comments","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/judging\/judging-process\/leaving-private-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving private comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, it may be that admins and judges want private conversations to discuss scoring. For this, the admins can create private channels with whichever judges they need to speak with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that this cannot be done unless the judge has accepted the invitation to judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Make sure you are using an admin account and not a judging account &#8211; only the opportunity admin can do this <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open up the <a href=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/judging\/judging-process\/leaving-comments\/\" title=\"Leaving comments\">chat function<\/a>, and click the plus button<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the name of the new channel and save <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"743\" class=\"wp-image-13249 lazyload\" style=\"width: 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959.png 818w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959-768x698.png 768w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959-20x18.png 20w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959-32x29.png 32w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-103959-16x16.png 16w\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use the people logo to add in people you want to have the discussion with <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"749\" class=\"wp-image-13250 lazyload\" style=\"width: 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021.png 815w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021-768x706.png 768w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021-20x18.png 20w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021-32x29.png 32w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021-16x16.png 16w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-14-104021-18x18.png 18w\"><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, it may be that admins and judges want private conversations to discuss scoring. For this, the admins can create private channels with whichever judges they need to speak with. Please note that this cannot be done unless the judge has accepted the invitation to judge. 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