# Discourse Dynamic Groups
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342 "2025-05-08T16:18:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342/26 "2026-09-13T02:07:07Z")
Thanks for building and sharing this. I wonder how to scope anonymous users? Tried `anonymous`, `anon`, and `everyone`, but no one reaches them.
I want to display some categories for everyone (anonymous) users but not specific automated groups. The Category Lockdown plugin is the closest to it that I had found.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342/27 "2026-09-13T02:28:54Z")
Anonymous users as in logged out users? If they don’t have accounts, how can you add them? TL0 targets all users, if that’s what you’re looking for.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342/28 "2026-09-13T02:50:10Z")
Well, that is the point. I want to hide specific categories to only one group.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342/29 "2026-09-13T06:22:22Z")
> [@satonotdead](#):
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> I want to display some categories for everyone (anonymous) users but not specific automated groups.
That would not make sense from a functional point of view, a user that belongs to that group could simply log out and see the category anyway.
From a technical point of view it is impossible, if a category is accessible to `everyone`, Discourse sets the `read_restricted` flag to `false` and all access mechanisms are bypassed.
From this plugins perspective, the closest you can get is `NOT excluded_group` (which is the same as `trust_level_0 AND NOT excluded_group`). But an anonymous user cannot be in a group, so no.
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### Author:  [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342/30 "2026-09-13T11:53:45Z")
> [@RGJ](#):
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> That would not make sense from a functional point of view
Of course I thought about it and understood that very likely for that reason the functionality is not active today. And I also clearly understand that the limitation would not be hard but soft.
The intention is to limit users who maintain a very low conversation ratio, with their reading ratio being 5 or 10 times broader. A badges and user title that marks them and an exit path explained in a simple way can “wake them up”.
I also know that it is common on the Internet for 90/97% to unintentionally fall into the group of _lurkers_, although I also know that this mechanism can motivate them, because they would be enabled to reply and contribute in other forums through a simple exit —providing three accepted answers as solutions— and not in the categories with the most traffic.
Technically, something similar is what supports peer-to-peer exchange in networks like Torrent, which have been functioning among us for more than a decade.
It is an experiment I would like to try, especially after seeing that the cheer points awarded are almost overwhelmingly granted based on reading time rather than contributions.
I think it’s something interesting to discuss; maybe this can be achieved with simple adjustments to the Discourse core.
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