# How to find topics without a reply from someone other than the topic owner?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-topics-without-a-reply-from-someone-other-than-the-topic-owner/179760
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 15, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-topics-without-a-reply-from-someone-other-than-the-topic-owner/179760 "2021-02-15T09:54:54Z")
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### Author: ![Ed\_Bobkov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_bobkov/32/200014_2.png) [@Ed\_Bobkov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_Bobkov)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-find-topics-without-a-reply-from-someone-other-than-the-topic-owner/179760/1 "2021-02-15T09:54:54Z")

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I failed to find a solution for this task: when a topic has a reply, but this reply wasn’t written by the topic owner.

All I found is about topics without replies and not posts:

This component will add a new top navigation link that allows users to filter a TOPIC list by unanswered topics.

> [@Unanswered Filter](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unanswered-filter/126257):
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> discourse2Summary Unanswered Filter adds a breadcrumb dropdown that filters a topic list by unanswered and answered topics.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/unanswered-filter)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-unanswered-filter](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-unanswered-filter)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features Unanswered Filter adds a new breadcrumb dropdown that allows users to filter a t…

This simple plugin adds the tag “unhandled” to every TOPIC if there is a non-staff reply.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-unhandled-tagger](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-unhandled-tagger)

You can search for topics with no replies using the advanced search, and order by latest:

> [@Just show posts with no replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-show-posts-with-no-replies/52775):
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> Is there a view option to just show a chronological list of posts with no replies yet? A lot of our community members want to make sure posts don’t fall “in the cracks” so to speak, and make sure that every post gets at least one proper reply. Currently people are navigating to [https://forum.freecodecamp.com/new?ascending=true&order=posts](https://forum.freecodecamp.com/new?ascending=true&order=posts) to mimic this effect.

```plaintext
https://meta.discourse.org/search?expanded=true&q=status%3Anoreplies%20order%3Alatest

```

I thought about a query for Database explorer. Is there any way to filter such posts without replies?