# Discussions guides

Discover pathways to get started or learn best practices for participating or monitoring your community's discussions.

## Links

* [Best practices for community conversations on GitHub](/en/enterprise-server@3.21/discussions/guides/best-practices-for-community-conversations-on-github)

  You can use discussions to brainstorm with your team, and eventually move the conversation to an issue when you are ready to scope out the work.

* [Finding your discussions](/en/enterprise-server@3.21/discussions/guides/finding-your-discussions)

  You can easily access every discussion you've created or participated in.

* [Granting higher permissions to top contributors](/en/enterprise-server@3.21/discussions/guides/granting-higher-permissions-to-top-contributors)

  Repository administrators can promote any community member to a moderator and maintainer.