# 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:** [2015 年2 月 24 日 22:41 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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作者： ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
发布日期： [2015 年2 月 25 日 15:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-without-access-to-a-category-cant-change-category-notification-settings-for-a-user-who-does/25636/7 "2015-02-25T15:03:03Z")

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> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> 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.

Agreed … the risk of a moderator simply **knowing a category exists** is low: moderate probability they find out about it, and trivial impact if they do. (What _could_ they do other than tell other people a secret category exists?)

> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Why are moderators allowed to edit user preferences in the first place?

Also, QFT. I could see allowing them to edit things where someone could put spam links or offensive text, but preferences, no.

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