# Help With a Private Topics/Replies Alternative?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-a-private-topics-replies-alternative/236469
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [August 17, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-a-private-topics-replies-alternative/236469 "2022-08-17T19:36:37Z")
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### Author: ![cocococosti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cocococosti/32/231474_2.png) [@cocococosti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cocococosti)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-with-a-private-topics-replies-alternative/236469/4 "2022-08-17T23:09:34Z")

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Why not use PMs? If you want to make it easier for your community, you could share with them a pre filled url with all the info: [Creating pre-filled personal message links](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-a-new-personal-message-via-a-link-with-pre-filled-information/35984)

For example:

```plaintext
https://yoursite.discourse.org/new-message?username=admin&title=Contest%20Entry&body=Please%20add%20your%20entry%20here.%0A%0DName:%0AOther%20details:

```

And the link would open like this:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-08-17 at 19.05.33](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/d/a/eda200b45cd626451226f07c76024122d2089552.png)

Maybe polls would work: [Creating and managing polls](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-polls/77548)

Or you could integrate Discourse with a survey third party service like SurveyMonkey.

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