Ensure read-only categories remain read-only (even for admins)

Context and Use-case

Sometimes it’s useful to maintain a read-only category accessible to one or more groups to follow announcements or mirror a diffusion list.

Problem

Since admins can post anywhere, it can happen that an admin will reply or post a topic in such a read-only category unknowingly, resulting in lost discussion or unnoticed intervention, or even in unsolicited email back to the original mailing-list.

Resolution

When an admin tries to reply to an existing topic, or tries to create a new topic in a read-only category, they should receive a big fat warning greying out the composer and asking them to confirm that they indeed want to do this, suggesting they could quote the topic in another, more appropriate space.

More generic feature request that would accomplish the same (and more) here "Regular mode" for admins and moderators (e.g. something like "sudo")

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Unfortunately the admin warning seems more reachable as a feature than the ever elusive sudo feature.