# Require a user to post in a certain topic before posting elsewhere
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-user-to-post-in-a-certain-topic-before-posting-elsewhere/58470
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 6, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-user-to-post-in-a-certain-topic-before-posting-elsewhere/58470 "2017-03-06T15:14:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Hotfirenet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hotfirenet)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-user-to-post-in-a-certain-topic-before-posting-elsewhere/58470/1 "2017-03-06T15:14:36Z")
Hello, do you think it is possible to oblige users to post a message in a certain category before posting elsewhere?
Thank’s
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-user-to-post-in-a-certain-topic-before-posting-elsewhere/58470/2 "2017-03-06T18:10:28Z")
You could ask them to. 🙂
You could add users to a group after they posted in that category and require membership in that group to post in any other category.
I was thinking that there might be a way to automate putting them in that group with badges, but I couldn’t figure that out in under 2 minutes.
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### Author:  [@Hotfirenet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hotfirenet)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/require-a-user-to-post-in-a-certain-topic-before-posting-elsewhere/58470/3 "2017-03-07T08:41:05Z")
Hello,
We ask users to introduce themselves but few people respect it. 😅
I thought I would play with the levels.