# Permissions in certain category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 16, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739 "2021-09-16T14:45:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@kyle\_boyce](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kyle_boyce)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/1 "2021-09-16T14:45:23Z")
Is it possible to have posts in a certain category:
- Allow everyone to create a post
- Only allow author and staff to reply
- Allow everyone to see posts - only author and staff can reply
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/2 "2021-09-16T14:59:04Z")
Check settings of category \>. Security. Then just allow what is needed to different groups.
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### Author:  [@kyle\_boyce](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kyle_boyce)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/3 "2021-09-16T15:02:17Z")
Hi there,
I tried this, but when unchecking “everyone” to reply it automatically unallows everyone to create.
I need everyone to be able to create but only staff/author to reply while allowing everyone to view
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/4 "2021-09-16T15:06:42Z")
You are right. Reading and answering goes, but reading and creating not. Strange.
Is this a bug, an accident or something that comes from the code? Hopefully somebody wiser knows the answer.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/5 "2021-09-16T15:29:01Z")
There is no option to have everyone create topics, but only certain people to be able to reply.
You can have everyone see posts and a more restrictive group create and reply.
To allow anyone to create topics and limit who can reply would take a plugin, or if you’re not too worried about someone clever being able to bypass the system, a theme component could probably hide the reply button for some groups.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/6 "2021-09-16T17:06:16Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> There is no option to have everyone create topics, but only certain people to be able to reply.
No there is not. But why? Everything else can be limited.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/7 "2021-09-16T17:21:06Z")
You can check out [Discourse Private Replies](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-private-replies/146712) which sort-of (but not quite) does what you want. You might be able to modify or pay someone to modify that plugin to do what you want.
I think that using a theme component to hide the reply buttons to all but staff and author might be an easier fix, but don’t know for sure.
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### Author:  [@4ong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/4ong)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/8 "2021-09-16T17:32:02Z")
@kyle_boyce @Jagster
This plugin may be helpful for you
# **[discourse-restricted-replies](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-restricted-replies)**
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-restricted-replies.git](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-restricted-replies.git)
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/9 "2021-09-16T18:29:46Z")
As brittons say (in movies anyway): splendid indeed.
I don’t know what OP needs/wants, but this does exacly what I need.
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### Author:  [@4ong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/4ong)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permissions-in-certain-category/203739/10 "2021-09-16T18:30:28Z")
@Jagster I’m glad to hear that it helps!