# Rules for inviting people to topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rules-for-inviting-people-to-topics/167896>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** invites\
**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rules-for-inviting-people-to-topics/167896 "2020-10-21T17:05:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mentalstring](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalstring/32/168934_2.png) [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rules-for-inviting-people-to-topics/167896/3 "2020-10-23T07:46:52Z")

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I reproduced this as staff and it seems to be dependent on the category permissions.

Edit to add: it also happens to TL3 and we use the default invite settings.

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