We’re exploring using our self-hosted instance of Discourse to run contests, and we’d like to auto close topics in contest categories after a certain number of replies (say 5). I see where I can set the entire site to auto close topics after 5 posts, but I’m curious if there is a way to adjust this at the category level.
Absolutely! It is indeed possible to control this at a category level. If you navigate to your category settings and scroll down a bit you’ll see this:
FYI you can also add topic timers to topics and set auto close