Disabling new questions/discussions

We have a product that has inherited several modules that all have their own forum in our community. We want to pause the ability to create new questions or discussion in those modules' forums so we can redirect users to the new product's forum. We don't want to disable the modules' forums outright, because there are still questions/discussions that need to be answered/responded to PLUS we need time to educate the users of this change. This will also help us with a stopping point in new content so we can run a report and determine what all is going to be "moved" to the new forum vs. what all is going to just be archived. If we don't stop new content from coming in, we'll have to keep pulling reports to include new posts coming in.

Does anyone know how to turn off the ability to start a new question or discussion?

  •  You should be able to go to the specific forum application (not the group) and set the permissions accordingly and turn off the "Create" option, but leave on the "reply" option:

    You'll navigate to the specific forum, click the admin pencil > Manage Forum > Permissions and then uncheck "Create Discussion/Question" for your Registered Users group (or any other roles that have defined permissions). 

    I'd also recommend updating your theme to put a Generic Content widget or something like that on the forum home and forum thread pages to start informing members of this change.

    (I'm currently on v.12.1, but I don't think I recall any changes from 11 that would stop this from working the same way)