# Exclude some moderators and admins from private category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2016年六月27日 09:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496 "2016-06-27T09:15:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Yonatan\_Golan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yonatan_Golan)
#### Post date: [2016年六月27日 09:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496/1 "2016-06-27T09:15:33Z")
We have a Co-op community using discourse. We have different committees working on different subjects and some of them have discussions about other co-op members which we prefer to be private. We created a private category for that. However, the moderators and admins were chosen mostly because they are more tech-savvy than the rest, but should not have access to these conversations.
Is there a way to exclude all or some moderators and admins from a private category?
Thanks!
Yonatan
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年六月27日 09:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496/2 "2016-06-27T09:21:57Z")
You can not exclude admins, they have “god like abilities” so be very careful about assigning admin.
Moderators on the other hand can be partitioned so some groups of mods can see one category and others other categories.
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### Author:  [@Yonatan\_Golan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yonatan_Golan)
#### Post date: [2016年六月27日 09:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496/3 "2016-06-27T09:33:48Z")
Thanks for the very quick answer.
How would I do that?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016年六月27日 11:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496/4 "2016-06-27T11:25:07Z")
You place the moderators who should see that category and put them into a Group. Then add the respective permissions to that category from that group and remove “staff” permissions on the group.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2019年二月4日 22:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496/5 "2019-02-04T22:39:48Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2022年二月16日 09:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-some-moderators-and-admins-from-private-category/46496/6 "2022-02-16T09:03:08Z")