Our forum is set up like so: TL0 cannot post at all New members are added as TL1 Promoted to TL2 once they’ve demonstrated they’re constructive enough TL2 can post to Feature Requests / Bug Reports freely TL1 do not have the ability to create new topics in Feature Requests / Bug Reports They crea…

[image] Drew_Warwick: I don’t think we have the ability to enable the New Topic button but provide a message like “You can’t post here. Please follow these steps.” This has come up a fair few times, might be good to have a pattern here.

It’s been a while. Is this still an ongoing issue @Drew_Warwick or did you figure out a viable way forward?

Yes. We ended up scaling the community to be several times larger, so it has become rather exhaustively manual to moderate them.

Perhaps @simon might have some advice here?

Any Discourse features that could help us avoid users posting in other categories if they don't have access to the correct one?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 25, 2018, 8:11am 2

This has come up a fair few times, might be good to have a pattern here.

Topic		Replies	Views
Per-category post approval Feature	1	979	July 2, 2018
Users are encouraged to post to categories they have no write access to Feature	3	987	December 6, 2014
Users mistake top-level categories for lack of permissions UX	25	3441	April 16, 2018
How to deal with constant misuse of categories as a normal powerless user? Community Building	6	1071	October 20, 2020
Create-restricted category, "new topic" does not list any categories Feature	3	1186	January 24, 2016

Any Discourse features that could help us avoid users posting in other categories if they don't have access to the correct one?

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