# Prevent users from deleting Topics themselves?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-deleting-topics-themselves/120977>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 21, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-deleting-topics-themselves/120977 "2019-06-21T09:30:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeemah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zeemah/32/252179_2.png) [@Zeemah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Zeemah)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-users-from-deleting-topics-themselves/120977/2 "2019-06-21T12:09:28Z")

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From personal experience, I’ve seen that they’re only able to delete their own topics it doesn’t have any replies to it; which I feel is fine. It’s a user’s discretion to initially post the topic and show the content to others on the forum. The same goes for posts.

If a topic has people actively replying or has previously replied, they shouldn’t be able to delete the topic, however, I think this is already the case.

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