# Disabled Uncategorized shows in category dropdowns

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabled-uncategorized-shows-in-category-dropdowns/370541
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [June 17, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabled-uncategorized-shows-in-category-dropdowns/370541 "2025-06-17T15:54:06Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabled-uncategorized-shows-in-category-dropdowns/370541/4 "2025-07-07T03:13:00Z")

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@hugh I am not even sure we want to carry this “uncategorized” snake pit long term.

Over the years I tried hard to get rid of as much of it as I could, but new edge cases keep popping up.

Imo we should get rid of the settings and just allow people to pick a default category. A theme component can hide a particular category badge for the rare cases where we people don’t want to show it on “General” or similar.

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