# New category permission - "cannot see"/"exclude"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-category-permission-cannot-see-exclude/50044>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 12, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-category-permission-cannot-see-exclude/50044 "2016-09-12T22:46:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-category-permission-cannot-see-exclude/50044/11 "2017-10-19T14:02:28Z")

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I think this is an AB problem.

You want to invite these guests but not have them inundated with posts they don’t care about? It’s not so much that you don’t want them to be able to see them, right?

You can mute all the categories they don’t care about. You could do that pretty easily from the ratings console.

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