Question about forum categorisation

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@Katherine

• Looking to stop users from selecting the parent category (level 1) to post their topic to, and only allow posting to the child category (level 2)
• Reasoning: Trying to encourage users to select the most relevant category for them, to hyper-optimise the forum and the topics of conversation

Remove the Create/Reply permissions in the parent category for normal users. Make the parent categories “See” only for everyone.

@Katherine

Is there a way to stop users from being able to create their own random categories

Users can’t create categories in Discourse. Only staff can.