# Possibility to lock a topic to a specific user only + staff members **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [Mars 21, 2017, 2:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possibility-to-lock-a-topic-to-a-specific-user-only-staff-members/59623 "2017-03-21T14:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![nordize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c68b51/32.png) [@nordize](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nordize)\ **Post date:** [Mars 21, 2017, 9:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possibility-to-lock-a-topic-to-a-specific-user-only-staff-members/59623/6 "2017-03-21T21:34:06Z")
It seems that’s pretty much what I wanted, i.e. the topic should be locked to a custom “team” group + specific user. If I was to add another member to the “team” group, then that member should be able to see the previous messages exchanged before he was added to the “team” group. I like Discourse very much so far! … and I gotta say, I love the proper programming concepts it’s based on (as opposed to the mess that Wordpress is and how my blood used to boil whenever I had to deal with its API). In less than 20 minutes with the rails interface for Discourse yesterday I was able to figure out and do quite a few things by simple command completion + peeking at /master/app/models (I regard that as a measure of how well code is written). Well done to the Discourse devs! // and that’s coming from someone who dislikes ruby/rails --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possibility-to-lock-a-topic-to-a-specific-user-only-staff-members/59623)._