# Vbulletin vs discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-vs-discourse/176665>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-vs-discourse/176665 "2021-01-20T08:12:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vbulletin-vs-discourse/176665/15 "2021-01-26T22:36:35Z")

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> [@riking](#):
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> the ability to have a section where only the topic starter and the admin/mod team can view threads

I’d need quite a bit of convincing on that. I feel this super weird permissions convention was something that vBulletin accidentally foisted on the world, and now we all suffer as a result. Basically it was “oh, here’s One Weird Trick™ to pretend our forum is a ticketing help desk solution, tell the sales team they can start selling it that way!”

(if you need a ticketing help desk system, use one! and that’s on top of the whole “hey what if permissions were per-topic” which is .. a massive and unnecessary undertaking)

> [@riking](#):
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> the possibility for a category where the topic starter has limited moderation powers in the topic

We have rudimentary forms of this already, for example the topic owner can reply an unlimited number of times to their own topic.

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