# Change ownership of a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [20 Febbraio 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:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [21 Febbraio 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-a-topic/12919/3 "2014-02-21T17:27:35Z")

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No that doesn’t make sense. When the db is created for the first time, those categories are created. Why is it annoying that the generic system user is the creator? If you want a custom avatar to appear there, you can impersonate the system user and upload a new avatar for it.

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