# User-Created Categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 10, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653 "2014-04-10T17:37:01Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-created-categories/14653/4 "2014-04-11T01:39:10Z")

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This is really far off. If you trust your users _that_ much, make them all admins as a short term workaround.

Otherwise create a topic for new categories and have people post to it when they need a new category.. watch that topic as admin, and voilà

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