# Immediately Close Topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/immediately-close-topic/154624 "2020-06-12T05:12:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![tempogain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tempogain/32/134055_2.png) [@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")

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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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