# About Category Auto-Created Topic - Sitewide Options

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-category-auto-created-topic-sitewide-options/159870
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-category-auto-created-topic-sitewide-options/159870 "2020-08-05T07:48:05Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-category-auto-created-topic-sitewide-options/159870/3 "2023-08-08T21:37:57Z")

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You have shamed me into tidying all ours up on Meta. 👍 🙂

I also encountered a similar issue on another forum I’m on, so I should really have known better. 🙂

But I think the point still stands. The About topics are automatically hidden from topic lists, so it is easy to overlook a reply on those. Closing them by default, or making them ‘unreplyable’ in some other way, would likely be quite useful to most sites.

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