# Admins can accidentally create uncategorized topics without meaning to
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016年七月15日 01:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342 "2016-07-15T01:53:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [2016年七月15日 01:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/1 "2016-07-15T01:53:31Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Disallowing "uncategorized" entries still offers uncategorized as default category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142/26) and
[Admin/mods can post to “uncategorized” with “allow uncategorized topics” disabled](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-mods-can-post-to-uncategorized-with-allow-uncategorized-topics-disabled/26469)
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:
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年七月15日 05:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/2 "2016-07-15T05:09:45Z")
This is by design. Staff is immune from this check.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [2016年七月15日 05:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/3 "2016-07-15T05:27:54Z")
Bummer. The result is embarrassment as someone in charge made a post which no one saw.
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### Author:  [@clay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/clay)
#### Post date: [2016年七月15日 10:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/4 "2016-07-15T10:41:04Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年七月16日 01:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/5 "2016-07-16T01:28:07Z")
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
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [2016年七月16日 08:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/6 "2016-07-16T08:10:51Z")
Personally, I feel that allowing admins to bypass that is right, but the default should be the same as for moderators.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [2016年七月16日 14:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/7 "2016-07-16T14:18:30Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@commonpawn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/commonpawn)
#### Post date: [2016年七月28日 01:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/8 "2016-07-28T01:36:46Z")
I agree - if it is not supposed to be used on the forum - why should admins be able to use it?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年七月28日 02:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/9 "2016-07-28T02:11:57Z")
There is a LOOONG list of things nobody else can do that admins can do. 😉
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [2016年七月28日 03:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-accidentally-create-uncategorized-topics-without-meaning-to/47342/10 "2016-07-28T03:10:10Z")
There are two reasons I disable `Uncategorized`
- It’s “selected” by default, making it far to easy to use.
- We have people watching specific categories. When topics are created in the wrong category, users don’t get notified of the new information.
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.
ADDITION -
This post is the same, only I’m trying to get the same experience for admins
> [@How to set to show \`Select a category...\` when user create a new topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-to-show-select-a-category-when-user-create-a-new-topic/48052):
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> I am a new admin of our discourse forum, and i have created some categories, but i do NOT want to show a default category when user create a topic, i want show user Select a category... instead, like the following pic shows. any one know how to set this? thanks a lot for helping.