# Answer Own Topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646 "2019-02-20T11:37:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@gul\_yurdakul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gul_yurdakul)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/1 "2019-02-20T11:37:19Z")
Is it possible to create a topic that is only updatable (reply, edit) only by the author or admin or moderator, but readable by everyone?
I would like to have your opinion about a new permission for categories?
I’m building a support platform using Discourse in which professional users can ask questions and author or admin can answer.
I would like to create a category in which professional users can ask questions and can only be answered by the author or admin. Standard users can see the questions and answers of others but can not create or answer topics.
Currently we have “Create, answer, see”, “Answer, see” and “See”, this permission would be something like “Create and see or answer own topic”.
What do you think of this feature? Do you think it would be easy to implement?
Thanks
---
### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/2 "2019-02-20T11:39:32Z")
That is already possible through groups!
Create a group, call it professional users add relevant people to that group. Then create a category and set it’s permissions as follows:
Admins can - create/reply/see
Professional users can - create/reply/see
everyone can - see
---
### Author:  [@gul\_yurdakul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gul_yurdakul)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/3 "2019-02-20T12:04:26Z")
if they are given “create/reply/see” permission to professional users, they will answer to all posts, but I just want to answer to their own topics
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/4 "2019-02-20T12:14:16Z")
Send a PM, that is what PMs are for.
---
### Author:  [@gul\_yurdakul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gul_yurdakul)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/5 "2019-02-20T12:39:17Z")
Will standard users be able to read this when professional user send PM??
---
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/6 "2019-02-20T12:42:52Z")
The only concept of per topic permissions in Discourse is in PMs. Outside of that it does not exist.
---
### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/7 "2019-02-20T17:34:00Z")
Only users that are invited to the PM can read it (and Admins, if they so choose, but we are working on a plugin called discourse-encrypt which will make that impossible).
---
### Author:  [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/answer-own-topic/109646/9 "2019-02-20T18:02:15Z")
@nour, are doing that to every member that want that kind of topics? 🤔
To be more clear, this explanation has the point we are looking for:
> [@How to Admin or the person who create the topic can only post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-admin-or-the-person-who-create-the-topic-can-only-post/109540/14):
>
> (…), fitness/weight loss progress is a good example as well, yoga, calisthenic progress etc. There’s definitely a market for “Timelines not on facebook” imo. I can see how it’s not specifically in keeping with the day-to-day discoursing (as there wouldn’t be any), it would be ideal as a public facing PM topic on the user profile. Think Reddit has done a similar thing, has personal blog posts on profile in one of their updates.