# Auto Close Topic by # of posts?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 29, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404 "2021-12-29T21:05:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Twi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Twi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/1 "2021-12-29T21:05:18Z")
I’m looking for the site setting referenced in [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linked-topics-splitting-and-managing-megatopics/168992). “auto close topics post count”
I do see the setting for the merged feature,
And above that, the setting that manages the max number of posts on private message topics
…but I don’t see anywhere in settings where I can set it that topics should close after, say 5000 posts. I thought perhaps it needed to be defined by category but I don’t see anything there (that would be even more useful tbh). To be clear, I don’t want to set a timer on the topic, it’s specifically the post count I’m trying to control. I feel like I’m missing something obvious x.x
Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/2 "2021-12-29T21:10:20Z")
That would be this site setting `auto close topics post count`
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### Author:  [@Twi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Twi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/3 "2021-12-29T21:14:02Z")
I understand that’s what it’s called, but where, precisely, is that located?
And a pre-emptive answer that yes, I’ve used the search in settings.
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### Author:  [@rorycb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rorycb)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/4 "2021-12-29T21:19:17Z")
In admin-\>settings filter for `auto close messages post count` to set the number of posts to auto-close after.
For the record, a settings filter of `auto close` would have found it for you, that’s have I found the exact name.
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### Author:  [@Twi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Twi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/5 "2021-12-29T21:20:45Z")
> [@rorycb](#):
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> auto close messages post count
This only affects private messages. I’m looking for `auto close topics post count`
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### Author:  [@rorycb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rorycb)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/6 "2021-12-29T21:25:45Z")
That’ll teach me for skimming descriptions 😑
I don’t have access to my non-hosted instance at the moment, so can’t double check there - hosted instance doesn’t allow that post count settings to be changed as far as I remember
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### Author:  [@Twi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Twi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/7 "2021-12-29T21:27:46Z")
Haha… no problem. 😉
OK, that might be the answer I’m looking for… Thank you!
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### Author:  [@rorycb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rorycb)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/8 "2021-12-29T21:29:53Z")
Just double checked - self hosted has `auto close topics post count`. SaaS hosted does not. If you are SaaS hosted you can’t change it, I believe it is set to 10,000 ( Noted here: [The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace? - #17 by jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-megatopic-public-good-or-public-menace/85592/17))
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-close-topic-by-of-posts/213404/9 "2022-01-28T21:30:00Z")
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