# 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:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rules-for-inviting-people-to-topics/167896/4 "2020-10-23T21:28:00Z")

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> [@mentalstring](#):
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> if a category is just not visible to anonymous users (but even a TL0 can Create / Reply / See in it), that already prevents inviting other users to the topic.

I can reproduce this on my local development site. Even as an admin user, when I set a category’s security permissions to Trust Level 0 can Create / Reply / See, the share dialog doesn’t give me an option to send an invite. I think that Discourse is trying to prevent invites being sent to topics that a user may not have permissions to access, but all users on the site will have TL0 status, so preventing invites from being sent doesn’t make sense for this case.

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