"Guard-rails" for categories which should have only scheduled posts?

Feature
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Situation

  1. an “Announcements” category which people should not post in accidentally
  2. a “Draft Announcements” category which anyone signed in can post to
  3. some set of people who can choose to Schedule Publishing for those posts[1]

Problem

I assume that in order to schedule publishing to a category, one must have permission to post in that category.[2] But, I don’t want people to post directly. I want the Scheduled Publishing workflow to be required.

I don’t need it to be absolutely blocked, because I assume everyone at that level has good intent. How can I keep it from happening accidentally?

  1. see related feature request, but could just be mods/tl4 ↩︎

  2. correct? ↩︎

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First two are trivial and needs only suitable rights which group can post and read. Like posting on Announcement is allowed only to staff, but everyone can read. And Draft — allowed only for TL0 for example.

Scheduling is allowed only to admins staff/TL4 via topic timer and that can’t be changed. But here is already at least one request for that option, if I’m remembering right.

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Oh, sorry! I see I wasn’t clear. Those three points are the setup. I can do all of those things, although as you note I would love for the third to be more flexible. The second part is the problem, but let me reword it to be more clear.

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