# Default category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-category/34481>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-category/34481 "2015-10-14T05:59:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![j127](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j127/32/79093_2.png) [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-category/34481/28 "2018-02-16T14:19:48Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> I am not against changing it so staff can no longer create topics in uncategorized if it is disabled.

Is there any use case where people would want forum threads to not have a category? It seems like that would hide those posts from users, if they are using the category view by default.

Or maybe a setting called “default category” would be useful – then staff could still override it (if there is any use case for that).

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