# Requirements to reply in a specific category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [22 سبتمبر 2017، 3:21م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582 "2017-09-22T15:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![daath](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/daath/32/115536_2.png) [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)\
**Post date:** [22 سبتمبر 2017، 3:21م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582/1 "2017-09-22T15:21:48Z")

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So I have an interesting problem that I don’t know quite how to solve.

I have a giveaway category on my forum. The problem is that some people ONLY participate in those threads, and nowhere else on the forum. I have already set the requirement of the category to trust level 1 - I am hesitant to set it to trust level 2 though. I would rather solve it another way, if at all possible.

How would you attack this problem?

I thought about making a custom “internal badge” that is awarded if you have twice as many posts in other categories than in that specific category - but that wouldn’t help much, since you can’t limit replies to people with specific badges?

That is another suggestion: In security on categories, it would be cool if we could require one or more badges to enable replying there 🙂

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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [22 سبتمبر 2017، 8:22م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582/2 "2017-09-22T20:22:35Z")

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Maybe you could change the rules of the giveaways: When drawing a winner, make each participant’s chances depend on the number of ❤ received in the main categories of your forum. (This should probably be on a non-linear scale so newer accounts also have a chance.)  
A [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) query could help you to easily extract this information as needed 🙂

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**Author:** ![rizka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rizka/32/79717_2.png) [@rizka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rizka)\
**Post date:** [22 سبتمبر 2017، 11:44م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582/3 "2017-09-22T23:44:11Z")

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> [@daath](#):
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> I thought about making a custom “internal badge” that is awarded if you have twice as many posts in other categories than in that specific category - but that wouldn’t help much, since you can’t limit replies to people with specific badges?
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> That is another suggestion: In security on categories, it would be cool if we could require one or more badges to enable replying there 🙂

Category permissions are restricted by group memberships. So instead of awarding them a custom badge, add them to a custom group. Then go to category settings and set it so that the everybody can see the category but to create or reply you need to belong to the group.

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**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [25 سبتمبر 2017، 7:21م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582/4 "2017-09-25T19:21:40Z")

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> [@rizka](#):
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> So instead of awarding them a custom badge, add them to a custom group.

Or do both (auto-assign the badge to group members).