Asking for access to a private category

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

This Plugin might work if self hosted

Discourse Category Lockdown

This plugin allows you to restrict access to topic pages in a category. Topic titles will still show up in topic lists, search, user activity & digest emails. This is a great way to advertise the activity in a “members-only” category, which may charge for access. It IS NOT designed to keep the contents of the category 100% private - if someone is determined enough they will be able to piece together the content from search results. Each category has a couple of new settings in the Security tab…

Change url to url to message group owner(s) requesting access.

Otherwise a topic with private Category descriptions & a link to message owners requesting access