# User can't delete their own topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cant-delete-their-own-topic/34256>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [Octobre 8, 2015, 9:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cant-delete-their-own-topic/34256 "2015-10-08T09:01:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shrike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shrike/32/68103_2.png) [@Shrike](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shrike)\
**Post date:** [Mars 13, 2017, 7:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-cant-delete-their-own-topic/34256/3 "2017-03-13T07:54:43Z")

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Let me disagree.  
What I can see in my forum: people start a new topic, then understand they did something wrong and it’d better to post a message into an existing topic (we have a single topic for selling things) and tried to delete the topic but can’t. So a person is looking at the topic and can’t understand what to do. What does he/she do? He/she posts another message into the topic with words like “what a hell, how to delete the topic?”.

So the reasoning “deleting a topic with replies would be rather rude to the people replying” should take into account the fact that all messages in the topic belong to the same user.

Moreover currently (v1.8.0.beta7) is not allowed to delete own topic for users with TrustLevel=1 even if there’re no replies! Is it on purpose? That looks very strange.  
I’d not argue about whatever it’s correct or not and how it should be by default. But I think it should be possible to change the default behavior and allow people to delete their own topic.

Is there any workaround to do this?

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