# Requirements to reply in a specific category **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [September 22, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582 "2017-09-22T15:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**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:** [September 22, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582/1 "2017-09-22T15:21:48Z")
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 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582)._