# Disallowing "uncategorized" entries still offers uncategorized as default category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 3, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142 "2014-07-03T02:39:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 15

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142/15 "2014-11-19T13:39:50Z")

</div>

Yeah, I get hit by this all of the time. I’ll navigate to a category, create a new topic, hit Create Topic and then go “Oh crap, I didn’t mean for that to be in Uncategorized, I wanted it in the private category I was just in!”

Happens way too often for me (you’d think I would have learned my lesson after the first 3 times…)

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disallowing-uncategorized-entries-still-offers-uncategorized-as-default-category/17142)._