Permissions in certain category

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The discussion revolves around setting specific permissions in a certain category. kyle_boyce wants to allow everyone to create posts, but only authors and staff to reply, while keeping posts visible to everyone. Jagster suggests checking category settings, but kyle_boyce finds that unchecking “everyone” to reply also unallows everyone to create.

pfaffman confirms that there is no built-in option to achieve this, but suggests using a plugin or theme component to hide the reply button for certain groups. A possible solution is the discourse-restricted-replies plugin, shared by 4ong, which Jagster finds helpful for their needs.

1

Is it possible to have posts in a certain category:

  • Allow everyone to create a post
  • Only allow author and staff to reply
  • Allow everyone to see posts - only author and staff can reply
2

Check settings of category >. Security. Then just allow what is needed to different groups.

3

Hi there,

I tried this, but when unchecking “everyone” to reply it automatically unallows everyone to create.
I need everyone to be able to create but only staff/author to reply while allowing everyone to view

4

You are right. Reading and answering goes, but reading and creating not. Strange.

Is this a bug, an accident or something that comes from the code? Hopefully somebody wiser knows the answer.

5

There is no option to have everyone create topics, but only certain people to be able to reply.

You can have everyone see posts and a more restrictive group create and reply.

To allow anyone to create topics and limit who can reply would take a plugin, or if you’re not too worried about someone clever being able to bypass the system, a theme component could probably hide the reply button for some groups.

6

No there is not. But why? Everything else can be limited.

7

You can check out Discourse Private Replies which sort-of (but not quite) does what you want. You might be able to modify or pay someone to modify that plugin to do what you want.

I think that using a theme component to hide the reply buttons to all but staff and author might be an easier fix, but don’t know for sure.

8

@kyle_boyce @Jagster

This plugin may be helpful for you

discourse-restricted-replies

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-restricted-replies.git

9

As brittons say (in movies anyway): splendid indeed.

I don’t know what OP needs/wants, but this does exacly what I need.

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@Jagster I’m glad to hear that it helps!