Hello everybody, I have a suggestion for IPB. Is there a way to add another permission option (for forums), to make it so whatever group is checked can only see their topics and reply to their topics only?

I have a form manager and when you submit the form, a topic is created in a forum, which is where everybody looks at the submitted form. It would be nice to make it so the person that submitted the forum in a specific group can only look at their topic and only reply to their topic (this user would be in a default group such as Registered Users), then admins can look at all topics and reply to all of them. Basically just another option in forum permissions. I don't think this should be a feature of the addon I have, I think this should be a default option in IPB. Since it isn't added already, I would imagine this getting denied but it's worth bringing up because I couldn't find this on Google anywhere.

Thanks,

GFL (Games for Life)

This already exists. It's the same thing as the Test forum on this website. Use the 'Allow posters to view other member's topics' setting.

^ indeed. This seems like a commonly overlooked option. I think I once asked Adriano to create a hook that does exactly this, only to discover it was already built into the software. lol