# Need ability to ban one or more users from a category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-ability-to-ban-one-or-more-users-from-a-category/78604>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 21, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-ability-to-ban-one-or-more-users-from-a-category/78604 "2018-01-21T22:16:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-ability-to-ban-one-or-more-users-from-a-category/78604/15 "2020-05-14T05:31:13Z")

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Or just use an IdM to manage groups externally, and have it subtract them from those groups, rather than push discourse to implement a subtractive permissions model.

Problem is, there’s little to stop them just creating other accounts. Your endeavours above have problem quite comprehensively that this is a people problem, not a technology problem.

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