# Hide all "about the x category" topics

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-all-about-the-x-category-topics/308536
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** css
**Created:** [May 18, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-all-about-the-x-category-topics/308536 "2024-05-18T13:40:29Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-all-about-the-x-category-topics/308536/9 "2024-05-18T14:41:02Z")

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> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> I think the best thing to do with them, as is, is just to leave them as category descriptions and close them off

There is a #Contribute > Feature topic about changing the default

> [@About Category Auto-Created Topic - Sitewide Options](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-category-auto-created-topic-sitewide-options/159870/3):
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> You have shamed me into tidying all ours up on Meta. +1 slight_smile I also encountered a similar issue on another forum I’m on, so I should really have known better. slight_smile But I think the point still stands. The About topics are automatically hidden from topic lists, so it is easy to overlook a reply on those. Closing them by default, or making them ‘unreplyable’ in some other way, would likely be quite useful to most sites.

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