# Restrict users from creating issues

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/restrict-users-from-creating-issues/3144>\
**Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\
**Created:** [April 1, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/restrict-users-from-creating-issues/3144 "2021-04-01T17:58:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![muppeth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/muppeth/32/1240_2.png) [@muppeth](https://forum.gitea.com/u/muppeth)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/restrict-users-from-creating-issues/3144/1 "2021-04-01T17:58:31Z")

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I run a public repo where we want to prevent non-owners from creating Issues. We want to keep it public so people can follow the development but since we have already had a spammer posting and we want to keep Issue creation to ourself to keep things the way we want, I was wondering if there is a way to prevent users from creating issues (commenting should be ok).

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**Author:** ![muppeth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/muppeth/32/1240_2.png) [@muppeth](https://forum.gitea.com/u/muppeth)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/restrict-users-from-creating-issues/3144/2 "2021-08-28T06:32:36Z")

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I see that most spam is done by users that never signed in. Maybe a solution would be to restrict users posting issues only when they signin recently?