Moderation queue tools are needed

It sounds like the categories are almost treated like separate communities? That’s not an incredibly common way to use Discourse, which is why we don’t currently have category-specific moderation features.

Generally if someone is acting poorly it’s a detriment to the entire community, regardless of category, which is why the standard action is to silence them globally.

Category-specific moderation has been discussed previously, and might one day be available, but there’s no current timeline for implementing it: Category-Specific Moderators, phase 1 RFC and Category-Specific Moderators, phase 2 RFC

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