# 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")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-moderator-for-specific-category-or-subcategory/35761/17 "2017-10-30T21:50:25Z")

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@angus’s proposal / plugin for controlling moderator attention is the piece I see core adopting.

> [@Moderator Extension](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-lite/67305):
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> This Plugin is no longer supported. If you’re looking to do category-specific moderation, please see: [Category Group Review/Moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478) This plugin allows you to create a category-specific workflow for moderators. It’s a work in progress. I’m posting it here now, as there are probably aspects to moderation I don’t understand or appreciate and I’m hoping to get some feedback. This plugin does not, in any way, restrict a moderator’s powers to specific categories. Restricting moderator powers t…

It is a smaller bit of work and something that should resolve the bulk of the request.

Having a ton of moderators you don’t trust on a forum is a toxic state to be in anyway.

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