The discussion revolves around a bug where users attempting to move a topic to a moderated category receive an unhelpful error message. nathank highlights the issue and suggests improvements, including a clearer error message, hiding the moderated category from the selector, and placing the topic in the approvals queue. sam suggests hiding the category temporarily, while maiki humorously mocks the vague error. darkpixlz notes that such confusing error messages are common across Discourse. JammyDodger encourages users to report specific issues in a dedicated ux topic. nat confirms a fix has been implemented, updating the error to: ‘You cannot move this topic to a category where you do not have permission to create new topics.’
When one of my TL1 users attempts to move a topic that they authored into a category which requires Moderator approval for any posts, they get this message:
This is not very helpful!
These alternatives would be better:
I think the best place to start is (2) let’s hide it from the selector for now.
@techAPJ can you take care of it?
You are not permitted to view the requested resource. It is precious, and long coveted by the staff. You will never view it again! Mwhahahaha!
I have noticed all throughout Discourse there are all of these random error messages that should probably be replaced, they’re all pretty confusing.
You’re going to have to be more specific than that. 
If you see any and can say exactly where they are, etc then spin up a new Contribute > UX topic and we’ll look at updating them. 
We made a change which hopefully helps. The error should now say
You cannot move this topic to a category where you do not have permission to create new topics.
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