# Group Based Category Moderation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** category-moderators
**Created:** [February 19, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462 "2026-02-19T01:31:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![canbekcan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canbekcan/32/544186_2.png) [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462/1 "2026-02-19T01:31:23Z")

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I am having trouble defining the group as a category moderator.

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I checked other topics but I could not find the solution.

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### Author: ![Noble\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 7:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462/2 "2026-02-19T07:54:13Z")

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I don’t think category moderators will appear in the group’s _Permissions_ page. You should create a test account or use the _Impersonate_ feature to check whether they can use these management tools on posts to verify if the settings have been successfully applied.  
For example, here I created a group named _Test_ and granted moderation permissions for a category. Even though there are no records on the _Permissions_ page, when they click the `show more` button at the bottom right corner of a topic, they can normally see the `delete topic` and `post admin actions` options.

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Settings in _Security_ are what will be recorded here.

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### Author: ![canbekcan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canbekcan/32/544186_2.png) [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462/3 "2026-02-19T08:19:11Z")

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I think I expressed myself incorrectly. I don’t think we can grant moderation permissions to groups; I think only group-specific categories are created.  
The feature I’m looking for is to assign the group as a moderator to the category and give group members the authority to control topics only within that category. I don’t want them to interfere with other areas. Is there a way to do this (other than granting moderator permissions individually)?

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### Author: ![Noble\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ad7895/32.png) [@Noble\_Fish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noble_Fish)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462/4 "2026-02-19T08:26:21Z")

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> [@canbekcan](#):
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> assign the group as a moderator to the category and give group members the authority to control topics only within that category. I don’t want them to interfere with other areas.

Isn’t the category moderator exactly what you need? The Group set here only has moderator permissions within that category.

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### Author: ![typed-sigterm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/typed-sigterm/32/504463_2.png) [@typed-sigterm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/typed-sigterm)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 8:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-based-category-moderation/396462/5 "2026-02-19T08:27:51Z")

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Category moderators (`In addition to staff, content in this category cn also be revoewed by`) is already the thing you want. It only grants moderation permission of the selected category.