# Allowing only OP and Admin to engage in a single topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-only-op-and-admin-to-engage-in-a-single-topic/176425>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 18, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-only-op-and-admin-to-engage-in-a-single-topic/176425 "2021-01-18T09:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDavis97](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mrdavis97/32/206391_2.png) [@MrDavis97](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MrDavis97)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-only-op-and-admin-to-engage-in-a-single-topic/176425/1 "2021-01-18T09:21:48Z")

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I’m basing what I’m asking basically off of [this idea](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-replies-to-a-certain-group-of-users/120102?replies_to_post_number=1) and [this idea](https://xenforo.com/community/threads/allow-only-op-and-certain-user-group-to-reply-to-threads.118530/).

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.

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