# Let topic owner approve replies to their topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140 "2020-09-23T20:26:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Dinakar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dinakar)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/1 "2020-09-23T20:26:07Z")
Hi, I’m building a platform where a specific moderation feature is required to reduce our workload.
We want discussion creators to approve the comments they get, i.e only after the approval of admin/moderator/the actual post creator/owner the comment will be displayed.
Due to the nature of work we right now have to verify each and every comment we guess this will reduce our workload if trusted members are given an option to approve comments in their post. Kinda like me being able to delete the bad comments in my facbeook post, only here I get to approve it as well.
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### Author:  [@Dinakar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dinakar)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/2 "2020-09-23T20:27:03Z")
Hopefully I explained myself well…
Thanks in advance to you guys.
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/3 "2020-09-23T20:31:22Z")
this is not yet avail as only mods can be set to approve new posts or replies.
Would need to request a new feature where the OP is allowed to approve replies.
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### Author:  [@Dinakar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dinakar)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/4 "2020-09-24T11:26:02Z")
Thanks Gavin, I’ll go ahead and request the future.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/5 "2020-09-24T18:07:26Z")
This is _extremely_ unlikely to ever happen, because Discourse has no concept of per-topic permissions (other than PMs).
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/6 "2020-09-24T18:36:06Z")
How about extending the Private Replies plugin?
> [@Discourse Private Replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-private-replies/146712/):
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> Github: [GitHub - communiteq/discourse-private-replies](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-private-replies) This plugin hides topic replies for everyone but the topic starter and the post author. Use cases This can be used for for instance homework assignments where the teacher opens a topic and posts an assignment, and all students make a post with their answers. When everyone has submitted their work, the teacher can open up the answers so the students will be able to discuss them. A second use case can be an auction where something is offered…
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### Author:  [@Dinakar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dinakar)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-topic-owner-approve-replies-to-their-topic/165140/7 "2020-09-24T19:28:37Z")
Wow, this is the closest I can get to my use case! Thanks for linking it and thanks @RGJ