# Strange Permissions issue - help needed
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530 "2018-07-17T10:26:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/1 "2018-07-17T10:26:31Z")
I’m relatively new to Discourse having moved my 500K+ post community to the software late in 2017.
I am the Owner and Administrator of my site. I have a Member only Category that has 2 sub-categories. I have setup the Category and sub-categories to only allow Members to see, read, and post in those categories.
My issue is that I can’t see posts in any of those categories when I view the Latest posts. I can view, edit, and post in the Categories when navigate using Categories.
If I login as my Test account (TL 1) I can see posts from these Categories under “Latest”.
Here are the permissions for the Category:
The sub-categories are configured the same.
At the top of the Category List when logged in as myself, I see:
I do not see this when I login as my TL1 Test account.
My user permissions are:
I would really appreciate some assistance with this as I’ve tried everything to no avail.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/2 "2018-07-17T10:50:34Z")
Why do you include all the trust levels with create/reply/see? There is a special group “everyone” that includes… everyone, which should be sufficient 🙂
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/3 "2018-07-17T10:51:51Z")
> [@Bas](#):
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> Why do you include all the trust levels with create/reply/see? There is a special group “everyone” that includes… everyone, which should be sufficient 🙂
I don’t want to include non-members. As I understand it, ‘everyone’ also includes guests.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/4 "2018-07-17T10:54:37Z")
> [@petersweb](#):
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> I can’t see posts in any of those categories when I view the Latest posts. I can view, edit, and post in the Categories when navigate using Categories.
Have you accidentally muted the category? Head to `/my/preferences/categories` and check the list of muted categories there.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/5 "2018-07-17T11:04:17Z")
You are completely right 🙂
afaik, it is enough to include trust\_level\_0, since the other TLs are a subset of this.
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/6 "2018-07-17T11:06:12Z")
> [@david](#):
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> > [@petersweb](#):
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> > I can’t see posts in any of those categories when I view the Latest posts. I can view, edit, and post in the Categories when navigating using Categories.
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> Have you accidentally muted the category? Head to `/my/preferences/categories` and check the list of muted categories there.
No ☹
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/7 "2018-07-17T11:14:52Z")
> [@Bas](#):
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> afaik, it is enough to include trust\_level\_0, since the other TLs are a subset of this.
I just tested this and could not see posts on the Latest List as a guest. 🙂
I could see the posts on the Latest List as my TL1 Test account 🙂
I could not see the posts on the Latest List as myself (TL4, Administrator) ☹
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/8 "2018-07-17T11:17:24Z")
“have you tried turning it off and on again”, as in, maybe it helps to log out, log in and try again?
Could you try to create a test post with the TL1-test account and see if you see that one?
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/9 "2018-07-17T11:23:14Z")
> [@Bas](#):
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> “have you tried turning it off and on again”, as in, maybe it helps to log out, log in and try again?
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> Could you try to create a test post with the TL1-test account and see if you see that one?
Good thinking!
I logged out and then back in again. No change
I created a test post in the Member only category, but am unable to see it listed under “Latest” when logged in as my Admin account.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/10 "2018-07-17T11:25:25Z")
Do you have the `shared drafts category` site setting enabled?
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/11 "2018-07-17T11:25:56Z")
Stranger still, I can see a post on the Latest list which was posted in a sub-category of the Member Chit-Chat Category. Just can’t see posts in the Member Chit-Chat category.
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### Author:  [@petersweb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/petersweb)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/12 "2018-07-17T11:30:24Z")
> [@david](#):
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> Do you have the `shared drafts category` site setting enabled?
Bingo!
I selected another Category and now I can view the Member Chit-Chat category.
Thank you so much @david!
Thanks also to @Bas for helping out.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-permissions-issue-help-needed/92530/13 "2018-08-16T11:30:35Z")
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