The discussion revolves around allowing only the original poster (OP) and admins to engage in a single topic. MrDavis97 inquires about implementing this feature in Discourse, citing similar ideas from other platforms. Benjamin_D suggests a plugin that achieves this functionality. MrDavis97 is satisfied with the solution, but questions why a similar plugin idea was previously estimated to cost $5,000 and be expensive to maintain. Benjamin_D attributes the cost to the plugin predating an official solution and being conceptually different. codinghorror suggests that this feature is essentially private messaging (PMs), as Discourse lacks per-topic security.
I’m basing what I’m asking basically off of this idea and this idea.
I want to be able to have a forum where a user can only reply to topics they created, and the admin has permission to create and respond to all topics.
Is there really no way to do this in Discourse? It seems like a very basic feature, one that a simple plug-in might solve. It would be perfect for what I’m trying to do.
I think this is the plugin you’re looking for: Discourse Restricted Replies
Awesome, I think this is what I need.
Just out of curiosity, can you explain why, in the first link I linked to, why “Jay Pfaffman” says in the last reply to that thread, that implementing such a plug-in would cost $5k and expensive to maintain?
It seems that Jay’s response predates an official plugin by a few months (which fiddles with some core properties that could have been hard/expensive to maintain without some insight from the team),
and his solution was probably conceptually different than what the plugin actually do.
Basically you want PMs. There is zero concept of per-topic security in Discourse.