# About the category moderator feature

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-category-moderator-feature/169185>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** category-moderators\
**Created:** [November 4, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-category-moderator-feature/169185 "2020-11-04T06:03:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 9

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Nesha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nesha/32/268340_2.png) [@Nesha](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nesha)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-category-moderator-feature/169185/9 "2023-05-04T01:50:44Z")

</div>

Thanks for your answer. To put it in our context:  
We got a gated forum for NZ data research community, where all users are verified and approved by Staff, and must login into the forum. After long discussion we concluded that barrier to entry is enough of a protection, and to encourage participation we decided to start with level 3 for all the users. That enables all users to post topics, which on our forum typically are knowledge sharing topics, or questions to the community. In short, users post when they have something useful to share, or have a question someone can answer.

From you answer I can deduce that level 3 users should have earned (in our case have been granted ) enough trust to be allowed to re-categorise topics. Personally I can see the logic in that, but we will discuss with our team what potential consequences this can bring…

Also, I think allowing this functionality to level3 users goes a bit against the grain of granting bulk topic/posts edit capabilities for level 4 users (Leaders), which your team has introduced few months back.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-category-moderator-feature/169185)._