# "Why Not Create a topic?" in category without topic creating permissions

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [7월 31, 2015, 3:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611 "2015-07-31T15:16:02Z")
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### Author: ![SlashmanX](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/slashmanx/32/108696_2.png) [@SlashmanX](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SlashmanX)
#### Post date: [7월 31, 2015, 3:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611/1 "2015-07-31T15:16:02Z")

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Just a small nitpick I guess, but the link and text in the following image seem confusing. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/8/5/8522bd98e635ad9e5a7976ab25df9fd8a531b324_2_690x65.png)

From that text it makes me feel like clicking “Why not create a topic” will create a topic in the current category, however as I don’t have suitable permissions to, it sets the category to ‘uncategorized’

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/e/ee5566d8f8fa29049256e1458ac1570dd361a96d.png) 

This seems very unintuitive to me, maybe get rid of that link (and the ‘New Topic’ button) if you cannot actually create a topic in that category?

Related to [https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-topic-where-permission-does-not-exist-assumes-uncategorised/18801](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-topic-where-permission-does-not-exist-assumes-uncategorised/18801)

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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: [7월 31, 2015, 10:05오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611/2 "2015-07-31T22:05:52Z")

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I’m almost certain we already have a bug report on this. It’s just not high priority.

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### Author: ![getabetterpic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/getabetterpic/32/116715_2.png) [@getabetterpic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/getabetterpic)
#### Post date: [9월 18, 2015, 11:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611/3 "2015-09-18T23:39:52Z")

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I’ve submitted a [pull request](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3788) to fix this.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 10, 2020, 5:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611/4 "2020-01-10T05:55:53Z")

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많은 시간이 흘렀네요…

PR이 병합되었으니, 이제 수정되었을 거라고 생각합니다. Daniel, 감사합니다!

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 10, 2020, 5:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-create-a-topic-in-category-without-topic-creating-permissions/31611/5 "2020-01-10T05:55:58Z")

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