# Pergunta rápida sobre a organização de categorias no meu fórum

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Maio 27, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quick-question-about-categories-organization-on-my-forum/88554 "2018-05-27T23:57:08Z")\
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Hi.  
I want to let users post classified ads on my forum.  
There would be two categories: **buy** and **sell**.

I would like to put these two categories, which are very related, in a parent category called **classified ads**. Obviously, my users should not be able to post in the classifieds **classified ads** category as it exists only to put **buy** and **sell** together.

The only way I see to do that it to prevent my users to post in **classified ads** but the thing is that they will still be able to display the content of the **classified ads** with “no subcategory”. The **classified ads** category will never contain any message so it’s weird to let my users see this page, they won’t understand why it is empty (I could add a message on this page, but that’s still weird). Plus the **classified ads** category will display a number of 0 message in the categories selector (as this selector displays only the number of messages from the parent category without subcategories).

Maybe **buy** and **sell** could simply have no parent category, but this is a bit weird as these two categories are completely related. Plus, I may want to add a third category (hire/service)? That would be 3 categories very related to each other and with no parent, although classified ads are not the main part of my niche sports forum.

Also I don’t want to use tags on my forum for various reasons.

So I’m not sure how to organize these categories.

What would you do?

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