# 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:** ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-only-op-and-admin-to-engage-in-a-single-topic/176425/4 "2021-01-18T21:14:19Z")

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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.

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