# Allow Users to Close Their Own Topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-close-their-own-topics/108060
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-close-their-own-topics/108060 "2019-01-31T21:35:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![orangeandblack5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@orangeandblack5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orangeandblack5)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-close-their-own-topics/108060/1 "2019-01-31T21:35:31Z")

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Being able to open them as well would be nice, but allowing users (of at least TL2, if not lower) to close their own topics would help in a lot of cases and prevent what is described in the thread below from being an issue.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-additional-flag-options/108057?u=orangeandblack5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-additional-flag-options/108057)

I also know that other forum platforms do allow this, so it would be nice to be able to open and close our own topics if we need to.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-close-their-own-topics/108060/2 "2019-01-31T22:57:32Z")

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Flagging is the correct course of action here. I suggest if you need users to close their own topics you should promote them to TL4.

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### Author: ![Steradiant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steradiant/32/360541_2.png) [@Steradiant](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steradiant)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-close-their-own-topics/108060/3 "2025-07-04T19:11:07Z")

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But this will potentially harm the Trust Level of the topic creator, right?  
This seems like a bad side effect…

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-close-their-own-topics/108060/4 "2025-07-05T08:43:37Z")

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For these you’d need to use a ‘something else’ flag to ask the question, and those don’t affect the trust levels. 👍 (only agreed flags of ‘spam’ or ‘inappropriate’ count, and that’s only towards the TL3 requirements rather than being part of all trust levels)