# How to make a topic visible to a group and the creator when the user is not a member of the group?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-a-topic-visible-to-a-group-and-the-creator-when-the-user-is-not-a-member-of-the-group/173945 "2020-12-21T18:12:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-a-topic-visible-to-a-group-and-the-creator-when-the-user-is-not-a-member-of-the-group/173945/8 "2020-12-22T18:16:31Z")

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Okay was wondering if you considered using Trust levels in Category Permissions?

As a user would need to spend time to “level up” and thus be older so to speak.

The Plugin Restricted replies might also be used similarly using trust levels or a group.

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