# Category moderators can't access hidden user profiles

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderators-cant-access-hidden-user-profiles/178925>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 8, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderators-cant-access-hidden-user-profiles/178925 "2021-02-08T16:33:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderators-cant-access-hidden-user-profiles/178925/2 "2021-02-08T16:35:52Z")

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User profiles cross categories boundaries, so this is not something that category moderators should be able to bypass.

Also worth mentioning that we have a site setting to disable hidden profiles globally `allow users to hide profile`

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