# Request: Topic starter icon
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-topic-starter-icon/92870
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-topic-starter-icon/92870 "2018-07-22T06:17:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-topic-starter-icon/92870/1 "2018-07-22T06:17:49Z")
Browsing a long thread - you sometimes forget who was the original topic starter - especially if you return to the topic days after last time you read it and jump into the discussion…
Therefore I request a solution that let you easily see who was the original Thread starter or topic starter…
Eg a icon or something that visualize who did original start this topic…
Update saw this: [Make posts in a topic by topic starter recognizable](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-posts-in-a-topic-by-topic-starter-recognizable/42324)
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 6:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-topic-starter-icon/92870/2 "2018-07-22T06:30:25Z")
Might the post avatar already have a class attribute value indicating its a post made by the topic starter? If so a simple CSS declaration with the right selector could do something like add a border radius. It might be more trouble if the change took up too many more pixels of screen real estate. I think that anything that didn’t exceed what the flairs do should be OK.
What does the HTML for a post avatar of the OP look like in your dev tools inspect?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-topic-starter-icon/92870/3 "2018-07-22T07:39:20Z")
Yes, the CSS selector for this already exists in the markup, so you can style it as you see fit.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-topic-starter-icon/92870/4 "2025-08-16T18:04:32Z")
A member of the community has shared a theme component for this here: [Author Badge for Topic Posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/author-badge-for-topic-posts/277579)