Visual Bug: Being able to create a topic in any catagory

I randomly realized, if you select text in a locked post for a catagory you don’t have permission to create a topic, it just shows up as normal including the template. For this example, i used the #resources:roblox-staff catagory which shows me their whole template

Here are some other catagory examples:



This could also be a discourse bug but i am not that experienced regarding this and either way i decided to bug report this. I haven’t tried if “Create Topic” works but im assuming there would be some security preventing this

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I just tried it out. It’s purely visual. I wasn’t allowed to post the actual topic.

Would’ve been quite entertaining if it worked, haha.

If I’m not mistaken, this bug has been around for a while now… I remember trying to see what would happen if you were to use the quote method back then but they don’t work. You can try pressing “Create Topic”, but it won’t work because you don’t have permission from both scenarios of having a low trust level and not being in the forum group dedicated to Roblox employees.

However, upon searching for this case through Meta Discourse site, I have found a solution that may be helpful: