When I select a topic to delete it, this argument is not cleared immediately. Why?

Well, ideally category titles would be self-explanatory and not need descriptions. But if some members have trouble understanding sentences I fear they would have even more trouble understanding one word titles. I have not tried it, but what happens if you create a topic in the newly created categ…

Sorry, I don’t understand what you are trying to say?

When I try to delete a thread: [Bild] the thread remains and can not be erased…

Nothing, I can not remove them and do not understand why…

Every Category must have the “About the ____ Category” topic. These can not be deleted But they should, and in fact need to be, Edited to a brief definition of the category.

I do not like that you can not delete. This way you have to write forced topic.

Similar to the problems some have had trying to delete seeded Categories, I’m thinking a change in the UI indicating that the About topics can not be deleted would help prevent misunderstanding how these work. eg. https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-threads-no-reply-buttons-for-users/33101/15

[Bild] Mittineague: Every Category must have the “About the ____ Category” topic. These can not be deleted But they should, and in fact need to be, Edited to a brief definition of the category. Ok, I have realized that they can not be erased… And if not edit, the category is not seen. I do…

[Bild] Roxelle: I do not like this thing. Unpin it, and if you insist make it unlisted. Hover on a category, you will see some text, that text comes from your category description topic.

Can't delete the "about this category" topics

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cpradio (cpradio) 19. September 2015 um 19:04 7

Those forced topics are where the Category Description lie. Which is also why your users can’t see any categories, because you haven’t edited this topics that can’t be deleted.

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Can't delete the "about this category" topics

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