I was wondering how I can immediately close a topic.
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The discussion revolves around Immediately Close Topic. Aiden12114 wants to know how to immediately close a topic after it’s created. tempogain suggests setting Auto-close topic hours to 0.001 in the category settings, but notes a minor knock-on effect. codinghorror asks about the goal, and tempogain explains it’s for a community classified ads category where responses aren’t desirable. Aiden12114 has a similar use case for publishing community resources.
Alternative solutions are proposed: ondrej suggests manually closing topics using the admin wrench, while maiki recommends setting category permissions to allow everyone to See but only the admin to Create topics.
You mean automatically after posting? I was able to achieve it for a category by setting Edit/Settings/Auto-close topic hours: to 0.001. I don’t know if this is totally recommended, I remember there was an odd, minor knock-on effect somewhere (I forget exactly where). But it works for my purposes.
Why do you need to do this? What is the goal?
For me, we use the category as a quick and easy venue for community classified ads, and responses aren’t desirable.
I mean it takes longer to do that @tempogain. Why not just press the admin wrench and then the close topic?
I think you must not be understanding me. Once I make that setting in (Category)/Edit, it always happens automatically when a thread is started.
Set the permissions on the category so everyone can See, but only you can Create a topic.
I need this because I want people to be able to publish community resources (Roblox) and then no-one can reply to the topic.