# Moderator without access to a category can't change category notification settings for a user who does

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-without-access-to-a-category-cant-change-category-notification-settings-for-a-user-who-does/25636>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [February 24, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-without-access-to-a-category-cant-change-category-notification-settings-for-a-user-who-does/25636 "2015-02-24T22:41:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-without-access-to-a-category-cant-change-category-notification-settings-for-a-user-who-does/25636/6 "2015-02-25T04:25:07Z")

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Why are moderators allowed to edit user preferences in the first place? That seems like an admin privilege.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> your thesis is incorrect

I don’t know about others, but on my sites this is not an issue - moderators can know that the categories exist, but shouldn’t be able to see the contents of the ones they don’t have access to.

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