# Question about forum categorisation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-forum-categorisation/204978>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 1, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-forum-categorisation/204978 "2021-10-01T15:06:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Katherine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Katherine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Katherine)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-forum-categorisation/204978/4 "2021-10-01T15:18:47Z")

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Thank you! I’ll give this a go! I’d previously read that child categories couldn’t have higher levels of permissions than parent categories, but will test this out!

Good to know re: staff, too! Can they create their own tags? Or is that staff only?

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