# Can replies to topics be limited to only the author of the topic?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 18, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-replies-to-topics-be-limited-to-only-the-author-of-the-topic/95071 "2018-08-18T22:02:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![RobMeade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmeade/32/109119_2.png) [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-replies-to-topics-be-limited-to-only-the-author-of-the-topic/95071/1 "2018-08-18T22:02:21Z")

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Hi,

I had an idea earlier… yeah, yeah, I know, perish the thought eh… 😉

So, it occured to me that many of our _creative_ users often post things they are working on across a multitude of topics and for differing _courses_, in our case. I wondered whether they might like to have a kind of _portfolio_ type feature.

My thoughts were, a user creates a topic, and then adds their screenshots, video clips, examples of code, or whatever else. They could then return to _their_ topic and perhaps add a reply with something new from time to time.

What may muddy the waters a bit would be if other users could reply also, e.g. rather than having an on-going portfolio of work it could get a jumble of conversation in the middle, which would perhaps be better placed in the existing topics, to help keep the _portfolio_ clean.

So, my question is - it is currently possible to create permissions whereby the author of a topic is the only one (excluding admin staff) who is able to reply to it? I saw that there are _ **Create / Reply / See** _ and _ **Reply / See** _ and just _ **See** _ permissions, and there are a variety of groups that these permissions can be added to. Not sure if there is a combination that would allow for the above to work?

Thanks in advance for any help / thoughts.

Kind regards

Rob

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