# Change ownership of a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 20, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919 "2014-02-20T21:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919/10 "2015-05-27T15:14:21Z")

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Isn’t that the option to **change owner of a post**? I don’t know of any way to change the owner of the topic itself. That person’s avatar image still displays in things like `/latest` even if all the posts in the topic were changed to a new owner.

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