# "About this category" topics cannot be pinned globally

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024 "2017-09-29T12:02:34Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-this-category-topics-cannot-be-pinned-globally/71024/7 "2017-10-03T16:41:13Z")

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I figured it out.

They had used the “About this category” post as a regular post. As it turns out, you can’t globally pin an “About this category” post.

I don’t know if there’s anything to be done about people trying to do this. It seems pretty obvious that the “about this category” is supposed to, you know, be _about the category._

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