I want to make a forum for students and consultants. Students: can create topics, only reply to their OWN topic they’ve created Consultants: can reply to any post, can create topics is this possible? The whole value add of our forum would actually be that you can ONLY get help from consultants, similar to the Q&A board on Avvo.com

I think this may be possible now with our Restricted Replies plugin: [image]Discourse Restricted Replies :discourse2: Summary Discourse Restricted Replies adds a per-category setting allowing staff to restrict replies on topics to the topic creator and members of specific groups. :hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-restricted-replies :open_book: Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse

says post withdrawn? were you wrong? @merefield

Sorry in my haste I didn’t notice one restriction you included: In a Category there’s no way to prevent someone from replying to a Topic they did not create. ‘Reply’ permission covers an entire Category and all its Topics Out of the box there is no way to do what you want to achieve. A plugin could achieve that. #marketplace is your friend :slight_smile:

[image] merefield: ‘Reply’ permission covers an entire Category @merefield I’d have 4 categories Category A Cateogry B Category C Category D within those categories there would be several subcategories. user group 1 can only create topics and reply to their OWN topics. User group 2 can reply to any topic and create topics. this is not possible without a plugin? do you think a plugin could be made for this if its not possible?

These are the out of the box group permission sets that can be set for each Category by group: [image] You will note there is no way to prevent someone replying to a Topic they didn’t create unless they have only See capability.

I see. Thanks. Looks like I’ll need a custom plugin. Where else could I find a programmer for this plugin?

You are well served here because of the domain expertise. I may even bid but tied up presently :).

I posted in marketplace. Thanks. If they can’t do it, looks like I’ll need Xenforo :\

Plugins have almost unlimited control so I guarantee it will be possible. Stick with Discourse, it rocks.

Do you have any estimate for how much this plugin might cost?

Restrict replies to a certain group of users

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 12, 2019, 7:37am 13

Permissions are at the category level. You want them at the topic level. Changing that will be very difficult.

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