# Anonymous Mode restriction per category?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-mode-restriction-per-category/71148>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** anonymous-mode\
**Created:** [02.Октябрь.2017 01:36:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-mode-restriction-per-category/71148 "2017-10-02T01:36:02Z")\
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I’ve got a forum where one category is for discussing sensitive personal details, and another is for feedback. I want to provide anonymous posting in those, but in all other categories anonymous posting would probably be inappropriate.

Any elegant way to enable or prevent Anonymous Mode posting for specific categories?  
**It would be great** if I could add a category security line of: _Anonymous Users =\> See_

**Pursued/Thoughts**

- I would set anonymous\_posting\_min\_trust\_level to 0, which would allow new users to post anonymously.
- I wondered if I could set category permissions so that “anonymous mode users” as a group could only “See” posts in my non-anon categories. I saw the best it had was setting category permissions to “See” for trust\_level\_0.
- Setting category permissions in most categories to “See” for trust\_level\_0 makes it difficult/obtuse for a new user to gain any reputation unless they posted anonymously first (I think).
- I wondered if “anonymous mode users” actually gained their own merit/reputation and were able to increase their trust\_level, which would defeat the idea of restricting non-anon categories by “See” for trust\_level\_0.
- I noticed going into “anonymous mode” creates a new user only the first time they use it, then reuses the same shadow\_id after that, so it looks like anon users would live and grow on their own.

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