# Suppress category but keep topic for OP **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [Dezembro 22, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suppress-category-but-keep-topic-for-op/76615 "2017-12-22T09:02:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [Dezembro 22, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suppress-category-but-keep-topic-for-op/76615/2 "2017-12-22T21:41:24Z")
I’m not clear on what you have on mind, but here’s my rough explanations. There are Group level permissions that are central. Discourse does well at advancing members’ trust level group. A member has preference settings, among others, for watching - tracking - normal - mute, for categories, topics and tags. In combination with notification and email settings members can adjust how a forum “gets” to them. Categories have additive permission settings for Groups, i.e. 1. Create - Reply - See 2. Reply - See 3. See Note that some options are not available, but if you create a plugin (or maybe a pull request) I think at least a few others might use it. The Staff group has extended privileges and Admins can do anything they want to do. So, background done - What you could do now without touching any code is: 1. create eg. a “membername\_group” 2. add the member to the group 3. create eg. a "membername\_category 4. give the category “everyone” group See permissions and “membername\_group” See, Reply [Create] permissions - or - you could use the message system. Moderators have extended privileges so there would be no need to worry about them Seeing as long as it’s started from Flag - Other --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suppress-category-but-keep-topic-for-op/76615)._