# Author-only Topic (take 2)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic-take-2/303254
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 10, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic-take-2/303254 "2024-04-10T16:06:14Z")
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### Author: ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic-take-2/303254/1 "2024-04-10T16:06:14Z")

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Folks in our community are also asking for something like this very old (and closed) feature request for [author-only topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic/12043).

Specifically, this is in the context of our [community “package announcements”](https://discourse.julialang.org/c/package-announcements/60) category, where we have **many** authors who post announcements and updates regarding their topics. Folks have realized that these topics can make for lightweight “release newsletters” if they watch the topic (with email!) for replies. But — even if highly moderated — that can get noisy fast.

> [@Author-only Topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic/12043/1):
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> To prevent noise, everyone else who would like to discuss the posts can only create “Reply as new topic”.

☝ This would be a great behavior in this context!

The original ask was closed, citing:

> [@Author-only Topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic/12043/6):
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> This doable using category permissions
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> create a group for user, create a category for said group, and allow the group write, allow rest of users read

This doesn’t work for us because there isn’t a clear group. **Anyone** can create packages, and we want anyone to create (and then update) their announcement topics.

I’ve not found any other workarounds here, but it seems like it’d be useful for other communities, too.

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