# Can I effectively make a topic read-only?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-effectively-make-a-topic-read-only/41582>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [25. März 2016 um 22:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-effectively-make-a-topic-read-only/41582 "2016-03-25T22:49:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [25. März 2016 um 22:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-effectively-make-a-topic-read-only/41582/1 "2016-03-25T22:49:56Z")

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Last year I installed a Discourse instance set up on a Digital Ocean droplet. It has worked fine, but now I want to make a series of related posts on a certain topic over a period of several months and make them read only.

I would like discussion of these posts to take place in a separate topic so that the original ‘diary-like’ posts are kept apart.

Is this possible or indeed desirable?

Thanks  
Dan

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