# How do I get help from people who are using Slack?
**URL:** https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [January 17, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116 "2023-01-17T05:08:13Z")
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### Author:  [@joellabes](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/joellabes)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116/1 "2023-01-17T05:08:14Z")
I have a question but I would also like people in the #advice-dbt-help Slack channel to see it; what should I do?
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### Author:  [@a\_slack\_user](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/a_slack_user)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116/2 "2023-01-17T05:09:56Z")
Great question! When you make a post in the forum, it will automatically post to \<#CBSQTAPLG|advice-dbt-help\>. From there, anyone can reply in Slack and those replies will be shown on your original forum post.
Note: `@joellabes (dbt Labs)` originally [posted this reply in Slack](https://getdbt.slack.com/archives/CBSQTAPLG/p1673932189665149?thread_ts=1673932116.935819&cid=CBSQTAPLG). It might not have transferred perfectly.
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### Author:  [@a\_slack\_user](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/a_slack_user)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116/3 "2023-01-18T00:38:31Z")
I silenced \<#CBSQTAPLG|advice-dbt-help\> a long time ago because it was too noisy. Should each discourse category have their own slack channels, where people are not permitted to post in slack?
Note: `@Sterling Paramore` originally [posted this reply in Slack](https://getdbt.slack.com/archives/CBSQTAPLG/p1674002302593059?thread_ts=1673932116.935819&cid=CBSQTAPLG). It might not have transferred perfectly.
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### Author:  [@joellabes](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/joellabes)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116/4 "2023-01-18T01:06:46Z")
@gnilrets good questions! Here’s how we’re thinking about this:
- We (intentionally) only have the one overarching Help category on Discourse, to avoid people getting bogged down in “is this a deployment question or a tooling question or a getting started question?”
- Discourse topics can be tagged, so people who have a particular interest in answering questions about #orchestration-and-deployment or #jinja or anything else can watch those tags
- The main goal here is to minimise the behavioural change needed for folks who are already active in `#advice-dbt-help` - if this works, then Discourse will wind up as noisy as Slack is currently (maybe a bit less since there should be fewer duplicate questions), so I don’t know that a read/comment-only feed in Slack will solve your problem in the medium term. However watching specific tags that interest you (above) might work?
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### Author:  [@a\_slack\_user](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/a_slack_user)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116/6 "2023-01-21T01:01:43Z")
I had a question about documenting singular tests and I was searching slack for the right channel to post to. Then I figured I’d post it on discourse. When I started writing the title to my post, I got the answer from another post: [https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/is-it-possible-to-add-a-description-to-singular-tests/5472](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/is-it-possible-to-add-a-description-to-singular-tests/5472)
Very encouraging!
Note: `@Sterling Paramore` originally [posted this reply in Slack](https://getdbt.slack.com/archives/CBSQTAPLG/p1674262895921009?thread_ts=1673932116.935819&cid=CBSQTAPLG). It might not have transferred perfectly.
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### Author:  [@joellabes](https://discourse.getdbt.com/u/joellabes)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.getdbt.com/t/how-do-i-get-help-from-people-who-are-using-slack/6116/7 "2023-01-28T01:01:55Z")
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