# Anonymous User Groups

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-user-groups/141466>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-user-groups/141466 "2020-02-13T05:22:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymous-user-groups/141466/1 "2020-02-13T05:22:18Z")

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My forum is going to have a lot of private topics locked under categories with groups. It’s a classroom setting, so anonymous posting is pretty important. The problem is groups don’t port over when a user switches to anonymous (as can be expected).

I’ve never written a plugin before but it seems this can best be done with a plugin. When a user turns anonymous, an account is created, I assign all their current groups to the anon. Will this work? I use the API to assign and remove groups. Can I have a trigger to also apply these changes to the anonymous user?

Are there any other implications that I am not seeing?

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