# How to use group feature (Very hard for me to understand)

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**Created:** [2017 年 9 月 23 日午前 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-group-feature-very-hard-for-me-to-understand/70630 "2017-09-23T11:44:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [2017 年 9 月 23 日午後 1:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-group-feature-very-hard-for-me-to-understand/70630/5 "2017-09-23T13:20:32Z")

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A group is a collection of users.

A category is a collection of topics.

You can use groups to control access to categories.

One use of groups is to create categories that are available only to members of a group. Or you could make it so that everyone can read, but only members can reply or post.

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