# Changing default ownership of "About category" posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 28, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414 "2020-12-28T11:13:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Elvith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elvith)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/1 "2020-12-28T11:13:40Z")
Hello,
Is there any way of changing the default ownership of these automatically created posts?
On my Discourse forum, moderators can manage categories, but it feels weird to have moderators as authors of these posts. We would like to use a unique “generic” account for these posts (let’s say, the system account).
I am aware that admins can change post ownership a posteriori, but moderators cannot, and our admins are already sufficiently busy. 😉
Thanks in advance for your help.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/2 "2021-01-02T10:25:50Z")
This came up as a related problem recently when the staff members who created the categories were force-deleted, their “about this category” topics were also deleted.
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### Author:  [@Elvith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elvith)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 8:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/3 "2021-01-11T08:05:07Z")
Does this mean the feature I am asking for does not yet exist but might be introduced in a future upgrade?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/4 "2021-01-12T21:13:41Z")
There is a fix in place now, if you are on latest – deleting a user no longer deletes any “About the {x} Category” topics that user created.
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### Author:  [@Elvith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elvith)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/5 "2021-01-14T12:18:05Z")
This is not what I am looking for.
I would like to have a site setting fixing once and for all the author of these topics. So that the author is not the moderator/administrator who created the category, but this fixed account.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/6 "2021-01-14T19:49:08Z")
You can change ownership via the following steps:
1. Use the topic level wrench
2. Select posts…
3. Press the Change ownership button on the right side of the screen
4. Select the user you wish to own the post
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### Author:  [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/7 "2021-01-14T22:14:31Z")
You could try impersonating, although the “stop impersonating” ux is a little strange still. I have the same use case as you.
> [@Add 'stop impersonating' link to user avatar dropdown when impersonating](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-stop-impersonating-link-to-user-avatar-dropdown-when-impersonating/13806/25):
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> Just ended up needing this today. I use the impersonate feature to post category guidelines, or other pinned topics or replies in them under the @system account. What I currently do is post them under mine, then change ownership to @system, but what if someone has the topic set to watching, then they would see that it was me. I’m not necessarily trying to be anonymous when posting these, although, I just don’t want those posts under my name. I could make an alt whose purpose is to post these, al…
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### Author:  [@Elvith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elvith)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-default-ownership-of-about-category-posts/174414/8 "2021-01-16T17:04:14Z")
Thank you both.
I know that I can impersonate or change ownership, but only admins can do these operations. What if I am moderator only, allowed to manage categories and groups but unable to impersonate or change ownership?