Discourse allows to create uncategorized topics even when "allow uncategorized topics" is unchecked

[kuba-orlik]

I think the title is self-explanatory

I did uncheck “allow uncategorized topics” in the hopes that it would prevent users from accidentally making confidential content public by omitting the “category field”.

But recently I myself created a post, forgot about assigning it to a category and it got created, revealing some inside info to search engines… Even though “allow uncategorized topics” was unchecked.

[elijah (Eli the Bearded)]

You did this as staff / moderator, I’m guessing. And I’m guessing that regular users cannot do that on your site. Staff are expected to be more careful.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

This is correct and by design… staff are immune to this limitation.