I have been using Discourse as a community forum for a while, but I also want to be able to recruit people through applications. Now, is there a way I could make it so you can only see your post in a certain category? To prevent copying other peoples application. I’ve been searching around the foru…

[image] Falovana: In summary, a permission or setting which allows us to set the category so only the user can see their own posts made inside of the category, not anyone elses. Only admins can see. Yes this has been raised many many times before and our recommendation remains, use group mess…

I don’t understand what you mean? You can set permissions on categories if you only want a certain group to see posts in those categories. You can create a PM topic and add people to it if you only want an arbitrary number of people to see the posts.

If you have a lot of people wanting to apply, PMs aren’t going to do that for you, it’s just going to be spammed. Alternatively, and what I’m trying to say, is that we should be able to set a specific category permission so others can only create topics, and not let anyone see their topic. This woul…

Disallow people from seeing everyones post, just yours in certain categories

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Falovana (Falovana) January 17, 2019, 4:40am 5

I suppose you’re right. I overlooked it.

Thanks for your help.

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Disallow people from seeing everyones post, just yours in certain categories

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