# Everyone permissions + "See" permissions

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-permissions-see-permissions/101613
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-permissions-see-permissions/101613 "2018-11-08T15:55:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![robmc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmc/32/125900_2.png) [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-permissions-see-permissions/101613/2 "2018-11-08T16:02:19Z")

</div>

It is not possible to use security to “Exclude” a group of users, only to “Include”, so to achieve this you would need to create a group that would include all users except for the group you do not want to have access.

See these previous topics:

> [@New category permission - "cannot see"/"exclude"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-category-permission-cannot-see-exclude/50044):
>
> Continuing the discussion from [Suspend as way to expire membership](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-as-way-to-expire-membership/49955/3): After suggesting to another user that instead of suspending a user they could put them in a group and change category permissions. I recently came across my own use case for this, where I needed to add some users to my instance and only give them access to one category. It does not seem like there is an easy way to do so, without modifying the permissions for every other category, and putting all other users in their own grou…

> [@Rate-limit first-responders in specific categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limit-first-responders-in-specific-categories/99555):
>
> Continuing the discussion from [Thoughts from the Elm community on Intentional Communication](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-from-the-elm-community-on-intentional-communication/99332/2) and [“The Hard Parts of Open Source”](https://youtu.be/o_4EX4dPppA?t=2698): Very interested to hear similar stories from other communities and how you did or couldn’t address them. All I know for sure is that this would have to be category-specific because in a category like our #Support there’s very little wrong with being a frequent first-responder.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-permissions-see-permissions/101613)._