# Add moderator for specific category or subcategory
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed, category-moderators
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761 "2015-11-18T18:07:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/22 "2019-03-28T23:09:10Z")
It shouldn’t be too far off now, @eviltrout did a month+ of work on aggregating / centralizing all approvals + flags and this opens the door to category level moderation.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/23 "2019-03-29T16:11:35Z")
If all goes well I’d like to start work on it shortly. We’re just fixing regressions and quickly integrating feedback on the new queue first.
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### Author:  [@dylanh724](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dylanh724)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/24 "2019-05-13T03:15:07Z")
There was one of our forum users that said it was out now, but couldn’t find a doc: Is this true that it’s out already?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/25 "2019-05-13T05:11:22Z")
Here ya go: [Category Group Review/Moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478)
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### Author:  [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Edward_D_Avignon)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/26 "2019-05-19T15:03:41Z")
It appears this feature only allows those in the group to review flagged posts. Is there any plan to add the other moderator abilities such as Edit Posts, Lock Topics, Pin Topics, etc? Our system has categories that are public and private. We need to allow these category moderators in the private categories but not the public categories. Elevating them to TL4 gives them permissions in the public categories that we do not want them to have.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/27 "2019-05-19T20:58:56Z")
> [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](#):
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> Elevating them to TL4 gives them permissions in the public categories that we do not want them to have.
And what “permissions” are those that you object to?
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### Author:  [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Edward_D_Avignon)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/28 "2019-05-19T22:26:50Z")
Everything that TL4 has that TL2 does not have. We have only a small number of users who are allowed to have the TL4 permissions in our public forums but we have about 2000 private forums, that each have their own users who are supposed to be moderators.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/29 "2019-05-19T22:29:07Z")
> [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](#):
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> we have about 2000 private forums, that each have their own users who are supposed to be moderators
You deployed Discourse with _two thousand subcategories_ on the hope that per-category moderation would one day be developed, and function is a _very specific_ way? 😮
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### Author:  [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Edward_D_Avignon)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/30 "2019-05-19T22:42:22Z")
Actually it was deployed without expectation of category moderation but when we saw it was available we were hoping it would work.
The system is used by the Boy Scouts of America. There are public categories but each Pack or Troop can have their own private category for communication among their Scouts. We want the Pack or Troop leaders to have the ability to be moderators in their own categories but NOT have TL4 access to the public categories.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/31 "2019-05-19T22:51:14Z")
Ok, I guess I misread
> [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](#):
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> each have their own users who are supposed to be moderators
What you mean is that each has users who you _would like to be able to moderate_?
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### Author:  [@Edward\_D\_Avignon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Edward_D_Avignon)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/32 "2019-05-20T01:33:30Z")
Yes. The pack and troop leaders should be able to moderate their own categories. This was a long time request before the forums were switched to Discourse. We would like the category moderators to have the same capabilities in their categories that a system moderator has in the public categories.
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### Author:  [@An\_Le](https://meta.discourse.org/u/An_Le)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/33 "2019-07-16T00:35:33Z")
Sorry if I got this wrong, but moderators an’t moderate specific groups or topics? They only moderate for the whole web app? So moderators are like mini-admins ?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/34 "2019-07-16T01:53:46Z")
Correct. A moderator has access to moderate ALL categories and topics.
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### Author:  [@An\_Le](https://meta.discourse.org/u/An_Le)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/35 "2019-07-16T04:34:12Z")
thanks! If you’re a moderator and in group 1. and Group 1 can only view category 1
Does this mean you, as a moderator and also in group 1, can only moderate the posts in category 1 only?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/36 "2019-07-16T15:57:24Z")
There is now a way to create category specific moderators which might meet your needs:
> [@Category Group Review/Moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478):
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> mega There have been many changes to this feature since first released. Check out [Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-improvements/158628) for the latest details. In the latest builds of Discourse I’ve recently [merged a feature](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/404b35bd041362bd3d855e95f2bcba5791d16409) that some forums have been asking for some time now, the ability for regular non-staff users of a group to moderate and review content in specific categories. How to Use Enable the enable category group moderation site setting. It’s default to off. The site setting was called enable cate…
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/37 "2020-08-05T16:20:56Z")
This is now available
> [@Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderators-improvements/158628):
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> We recently added lots of long awaited improvements to our [Category specific Moderators feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478/). As of today, they are now able to: Mark topics as solved Edit posts Close topics Archive topics Move posts from a topic Pin/unpin topics Edit category descriptions Add staff notices for any topics under the categories they have moderator status. Category Moderators now get a shield on posts under their categories, and we also added a special CSS class their posts, so you …
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/38 "2020-08-05T16:21:02Z")
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