# Making a category that can only be accessed with a badge?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 14, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550 "2015-11-14T13:50:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Nathaniel\_Mattocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nathaniel_Mattocks)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550/1 "2015-11-14T13:50:19Z")
I was wondering if you can make a category that you can only access with a specific badge?
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### Author:  [@Nathaniel\_Mattocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nathaniel_Mattocks)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550/2 "2015-11-14T17:14:49Z")
@codinghorror? Is this possible?
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### Author:  [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550/3 "2015-11-14T17:24:31Z")
You can make categories group-specific and grant a badge for belonging to the group, but badges themselves can’t be used for access privileges as is.
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### Author:  [@Nathaniel\_Mattocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nathaniel_Mattocks)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550/4 "2015-11-14T21:21:08Z")
That solved it thanks.
But instead of making a new topic, I was wondering how you make a word appear as the username if the person that is viewing it?
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### Author:  [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550/5 "2015-11-14T21:38:50Z")
Could you rephrase your question? It isn’t quite clear to me what you’re asking.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-category-that-can-only-be-accessed-with-a-badge/35550/6 "2025-12-04T11:37:07Z")