# 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.Сентябрь.2017 15:21:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/requirements-to-reply-in-a-specific-category/70582 "2017-09-22T15:21:48Z")\
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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.Сентябрь.2017 23:44:11 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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