# Author-only Topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic/12043
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 19, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic/12043 "2014-01-19T00:13:14Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-only-topic/12043/6 "2017-02-20T18:24:22Z")

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This doable using category permissions

create a group for user, create a category for said group, and allow the group write, allow rest of users read.

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