# Immediately Close Topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624 "2020-06-12T05:12:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Aiden12114](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aiden12114)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/1 "2020-06-12T05:12:06Z")
I was wondering how I can immediately close a topic.
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### Author:  [@tempogain](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tempogain)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/2 "2020-06-12T05:20:01Z")
You mean automatically after posting? I was able to achieve it for a category by setting Edit/Settings/Auto-close topic hours: to 0.001. I don’t know if this is totally recommended, I remember there was an odd, minor knock-on effect somewhere (I forget exactly where). But it works for my purposes.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/3 "2020-06-12T05:56:35Z")
Why do you need to do this? What is the goal?
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### Author:  [@tempogain](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tempogain)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/4 "2020-06-12T06:00:22Z")
For me, we use the category as a quick and easy venue for community classified ads, and responses aren’t desirable.
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/5 "2020-06-12T07:30:24Z")
I mean it takes longer to do that @tempogain. Why not just press the admin wrench and then the close topic?
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### Author:  [@tempogain](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tempogain)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 8:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/6 "2020-06-12T08:10:37Z")
I think you must not be understanding me. Once I make that setting in (Category)/Edit, it always happens automatically when a thread is started.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/7 "2020-06-12T19:50:48Z")
Set the permissions on the category so everyone can See, but only you can Create a topic.
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### Author:  [@Aiden12114](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aiden12114)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/10 "2020-06-13T03:24:32Z")
I need this because I want people to be able to publish community resources (Roblox) and then no-one can reply to the topic.
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### Author:  [@Aiden12114](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aiden12114)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/11 "2020-06-13T03:24:59Z")
@maiki [Immediately Close Topic - #10 by Aiden12114](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/10)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624/12 "2020-07-13T03:32:27Z")
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