It would be great to limit the Topic types per category. Is there already a plugin or something?
I would like to create a Q&A Subcategory for Q&A only.
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The discussion revolves around the ability to limit all topics in a category to Post Voting format. Users simon-g, nukeador, JammyDodger, and Brady1 express the need for this feature, particularly for enforcing a Q&A or voting-only environment. JammyDodger confirms that this functionality is now available via a category-level toggle in settings, allowing administrators to enforce that new topics can only be Post Voting topics. simon-g clarifies that while the feature exists, it may not fully enforce it across all topics. Brady1 emphasizes the importance of this feature for improving post organization, data collection, and UI cleanliness. The feature is now implemented and can be enabled in category settings as shown.
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Being able to set all topics in a category as Q&A format is must for our use case, as the deprecated plugin was doing.
Looking forward to it, thanks for the work! 
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There is a category-level toggle you can apply on the category settings page to have new topics in Q&A/Upvote mode by default. 
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I am already using this functionality. But there is no option to enforce this, right?
only allowing creation of voting topics (no legacy topics) for a given category (ok) or globally (better)
This is the highest leverage feature of all the features I have recently suggested. It would obsolete all others for my use case, since I want exclusively voting topics on my site
User story
I am an admin and I want to enforce topic voting everywhere on my site so that I can reap the benefits - [improved post organization, neatness, and sorting, more data via votes, more compact UI]
UI
Checkbox in settings
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Just to round this out, this is now possible using the ‘New topics can only be Post Voting topics in this category’ option in the category settings: 
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