# Creating category where staff can see all post but users can only see there own

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-category-where-staff-can-see-all-post-but-users-can-only-see-there-own/30962
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2015 年 7 月 10 日午後 11:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-category-where-staff-can-see-all-post-but-users-can-only-see-there-own/30962 "2015-07-10T23:25:51Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2015 年 7 月 11 日午前 5:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-category-where-staff-can-see-all-post-but-users-can-only-see-there-own/30962/2 "2015-07-11T05:11:56Z")

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Your best bet at the moment is to allow users to send Private Messages to `@staff` or some other group.

See also:

> [@Personal message to admin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-to-admin/23052):
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> @sam @eviltrout @codinghorror Really need your help here I have a private discourse instance where the private message option is disabled to avoid bullying / trolling among students College needs an urgent requirement where the students should have a mechanism to reach a group of staffs for any complaints. Ideally we need a category where the students can post but not see the list of posts. In other words a category with “Create Only” restriction for students group. Let me explain the ideal …

> [@Private messages to a group, or other means to handle private support requests](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-messages-to-a-group-or-other-means-to-handle-private-support-requests/14010):
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> We will be deploying discourse primarily as an open forum for users of our products to discuss features, bugs, usage, etc. Our customers still often need a private channel to discuss certain issues, however. To date, they are all used to emailing ‘support’, where a group of us can respond and stay copied on the conversation. But I’m hoping to steer folks toward the forum where possible to encourage people to use the open resources on the forum. Worst case, we will just end up replying to the…

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