# What abilities do TL4 have in view-only Categories?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** category-moderators\
**Created:** [January 19, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-abilities-do-tl4-have-in-view-only-categories/252247 "2023-01-19T01:31:54Z")\
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That is a great question. 🙂

I have just set it up on my test site to try it out:

- Create category with permissions:  
`everyone | see`  
`groupA | create`
- Have a TL4 test user not in groupA

When the test user tries to create a topic in that category the button is greyed out as expected, the test user also cannot edit anyone’s posts as they can in the other categories (no edit pencil).

However, they do still have access to the post and topic wrench menus, so can add staff notice, make wiki, rebuild HTML, as well as select posts (move to), open/close topic, pin, archive, unlist, set topic timer, reset bump date, and set slow mode.

Though, as they’re TL4s and are highly trusted community members you could ask them not to do those things in that category and they should respect that?

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