# Category-Specific Moderators, phase 2 RFC
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-2-rfc/21901
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc, completed, category-moderators
**Created:** [November 6, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-2-rfc/21901 "2014-11-06T22:07:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jmay](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jmay)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-2-rfc/21901/1 "2014-11-06T22:07:26Z")
## Category Administration Pages
Similar to the Admin Dashboard, but information restricted to a single category.
- Users:Active, :New, :Suspended and :Blocked pages would only show users with access permission for that category
- Users:Mods page would only show other moderators for that category
## Category Moderator UI
- Moderator gets a new “Moderator” button in their Profile page header
- new Category Moderation page at `/users/{username}/moderation`
- moderation page shows all moderated categories, listed alphabetically,
with a summary stats block for each. Each block links to a per-category
moderation page.
- new Per-Category Moderation page at
`/users/{username}/moderation/{category-slug}`
- design TBD for the per-category moderation page: would be nice to put as
much info on a single page as possible
## Additional Category Moderator privileges
- view activity log within the category
- block users from posting within a category
- receive and act upon notifications for flags (in the category)
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-2-rfc/21901/2 "2019-05-13T14:00:33Z")
It doesn’t exactly match this RFC, but we have made some baby steps towards allowing categories to be moderated. Right now if there are flags / queued posts, a particular group can review them:
> [@Category Group Review/Moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478):
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> mega There have been many changes to this feature since first released. Check out [Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-improvements/158628) for the latest details. In the latest builds of Discourse I’ve recently [merged a feature](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/404b35bd041362bd3d855e95f2bcba5791d16409) that some forums have been asking for some time now, the ability for regular non-staff users of a group to moderate and review content in specific categories. How to Use Enable the enable category group moderation site setting. It’s default to off. The site setting was called enable cate…
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-2-rfc/21901/3 "2020-08-05T16:17:45Z")
We just shipped a lot of improvements to this feature
> [@Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderators-improvements/158628):
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> We recently added lots of long awaited improvements to our [Category specific Moderators feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478/). As of today, they are now able to: Mark topics as solved Edit posts Close topics Archive topics Move posts from a topic Pin/unpin topics Edit category descriptions Add staff notices for any topics under the categories they have moderator status. Category Moderators now get a shield on posts under their categories, and we also added a special CSS class their posts, so you …
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators-phase-2-rfc/21901/4 "2020-08-05T16:17:55Z")