Continuing the discussion from Disallowing "uncategorized" entries still offers uncategorized as default category and
Admin/mods can post to “uncategorized” with “allow uncategorized topics” disabled
A fellow admin on a site I run was able to do this the other day. When i asked him about it he said he had no idea, and had meant to put it into the Benefits category
Site settings:
Where I fixed it:
I think my fellow admin just forgot to pick anything here:
This is by design. Staff is immune from this check.
Bummer. The result is embarrassment as someone in charge made a post which no one saw.
I also disagree with this behavior for exactly the same reason, in a corporate environment. There should be an “Allow Admins to post to Uncategorized” option for turning it off in these situations.
Uncategorised is and always was a train wreck, it should just be a normal category with no special semantics, don’t like it, rename or remove. Badge suppression can be done with CSS
I will eventually get to this
Personally, I feel that allowing admins to bypass that is right, but the default should be the same as for moderators.
I don’t care if my fellow administrators choose “uncategorized” from the pop-up menu, I just want to prevent them from accidentally not setting a category.
I agree - if it is not supposed to be used on the forum - why should admins be able to use it?
There is a LOOONG list of things nobody else can do that admins can do. 
There are two reasons I disable Uncategorized
I never intended to say that there’s no purpose to “Uncategorized” I’m trying to protect people (fellow admins in this case) from making unintentional mistakes.
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This post is the same, only I’m trying to get the same experience for admins
