# Help! I need to make just one category public

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**Created:** [March 22, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-i-need-to-make-just-one-category-public/145171 "2020-03-22T22:07:03Z")\
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I have an urgent need to make one category public in a private forum.

This is to communicate what our health professionals think in real time in a poll regarding an urgent COVID-19 issue, to contribute to the increasingly heated public debate.

Can anyone give me a quick rundown of any anticipated problems? I’ve read the posts on here, but as always Discourse has moved on in some fronts. My plan:

1. Make all groups only visible to logged in users
2. Make all other categories create, reply, see for TL\_0 (or tighter), and not everyone
3. Create Public category set at see for everyone, reply for TL-0, and post a closed topic with the poll in it.

Is this going to work? Will any user data be exposed?

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