# Good use cases for groups (to better understand groups vs categories)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/good-use-cases-for-groups-to-better-understand-groups-vs-categories/62875
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/good-use-cases-for-groups-to-better-understand-groups-vs-categories/62875 "2017-05-17T13:39:16Z")
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### Author: ![scombs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/scombs/32/48616_2.png) [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/good-use-cases-for-groups-to-better-understand-groups-vs-categories/62875/8 "2017-05-18T00:57:23Z")

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Group use cases at

- [Improving the Groups page for 1.7 - #10 by scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-the-groups-page-for-1-7/53347/10)

including using groups to assign badge with a badge query.

The “request permission to join” group feature is nice also to let owners manage their private groups.

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