# Deleting permissions | Create new Topic **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-permissions-create-new-topic/247533 **Category:** Support **Created:** [December 2, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-permissions-create-new-topic/247533 "2022-12-02T18:50:17Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger) #### Post date: [December 2, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-permissions-create-new-topic/247533/4 "2022-12-02T21:56:07Z")
Hello and welcome @AndresGomez 🙂 I think your user may have been recently made into a Category Moderator to acquire the ability to delete a topic (only Category Moderators, Moderators, and Admin currently have the delete permission for content that’s not their own). Normally if you accidentally delete a topic you can pull up the topic wrench again and undelete it in the same fashion, but I’ve just had a quick run-through on my test site and I notice that Category Moderators have the ability to delete a topic but don’t have the power to view deleted topics. This leads to the unfortunate position where if a Category Moderator accidentally deletes a topic the page refreshes and they then can’t get back to that topic to reverse the error. As a workaround in the short-term you could make the user a TL4 instead as they have a lot of permissions that are useful, like global edit, splitting topics, closing, etc but not everything a Category Moderator has (like delete, or access to the Review Queue). There’s a comparison table in [Trust Level Permissions Table (inc Moderator Roles)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-table-inc-moderator-roles/224824) with more info in, if you want to check it out. 👍 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-permissions-create-new-topic/247533)._