# Can't select some categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [2016年一月15日 02:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980 "2016-01-15T02:42:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@john\_mardlin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john_mardlin)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 02:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/1 "2016-01-15T02:42:50Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Bitcoin Tipping Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bitcoin-tipping-plugin/37915):
@erlend_sh:
Thanks for fixing the category. I for some reason am not able to select the “plugin” category.
edit: @sam thanks for fixing that. 🔧
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 03:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/2 "2016-01-15T03:22:43Z")
How is this a bug? The permissions on that category say only TL3 can create topics in it.
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### Author:  [@john\_mardlin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john_mardlin)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 03:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/3 "2016-01-15T03:37:05Z")
It felt like a bug. Now I know.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 03:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/4 "2016-01-15T03:52:59Z")
No problem, maybe @erlend_sh can chime in on the permissions.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 05:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/5 "2016-01-15T05:59:39Z")
Hmm, unless things have changed since
> [@About the Plugin category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-plugin-category/12648/1):
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> Note
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> Plugin authors should all have the permission to post topics here, if you are a plugin author please contact @sam via a PM so I can add you to the plugin\_author group.
(plugin, not the highlighted howto)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 06:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/6 "2016-01-15T06:04:37Z")
Yeah, you need to be in plugin-authors group to be able to post plugins. (which you are now) 🙂
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### Author:  [@zh99998](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zh99998)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 06:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/7 "2016-01-15T06:17:49Z")
It do feel like a bug for normal users who don’t know a lot about the system.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 06:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/8 "2016-01-15T06:23:22Z")
> [@zh99998](#):
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> It do feel like a bug for normal users who don’t know a lot about the system.
If they don’t know the system, how much chance is there that they’ll be able to write a plugin?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [2016年一月15日 10:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-select-some-categories/37980/9 "2016-01-15T10:05:34Z")
I think @zh99998 meant “the system” as in “the Meta Forum”. I think there’s an argument to be made here that when a category is visible to you but still limited in some ways, Discourse should explain _what_ those limitations are.
Maybe when non-default permissions are applied, the UI should expose which permissions apply to you, both on the Categories page as well as the drop-down.
Maybe just enough to give people a clue:
> plugin x81 - _ ~~create~~ , reply, see_
> Plugin directory. To post here, message a Staff member and ask for access. One post per plugin please.
Anyhow, as a first measure I edited the category description a bit to make it clearer.