# Require a category for every post

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-category-for-every-post/24810>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 4, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-category-for-every-post/24810 "2015-02-04T17:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![sashko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sashko/32/52315_2.png) [@sashko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sashko)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-category-for-every-post/24810/14 "2016-04-07T02:46:50Z")

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Perhaps it doesn’t work the way I think it does, but I use categories to ignore a certain subset of posts by excluding them from my front page. When users don’t put in the effort to add a category, this filter doesn’t work anymore, and I would rather not ignore all uncategorized posts because often they can be pretty important.

If `uncategorized` is turned off, will users get some default category, or will they be required to select a category for new topics? That would be ideal.

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