Hi guys.
I realized that this existed, even though it wasn't a topic I created.
Did it exist before? Is OP's authority leaked?
I added the “let’s see” to the title so it looks like you can.
In my opinion a serious error in the forum software.
Thanks for the reply and your test, Mike.
This turned out that I wasn't the only one.
Do you know anything about this? @pert @PerryBebbington
It's related to trust level, Chris and Mike you are both at TL3. TL3 users can edit the title and move the topic if it's in the wrong category. If you see a post in the wrong category try it, if you edit the title you can also edit the category.
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Hi Perry. 
Thank you for the that explanation. So this sounds like a "discourse" feature.
BTW; Am I obliged to move to the correct category when answering questions posted in the may wrong category to reward the trust of the forum?
I myself am not very confident in my choice to category. 
Neither am I 
My approach for Installation and Troubleshooting, Introductory Tutorials and the Avrdude, stk500 and bootloader sections is that any section is better than those if it's in the incorrect section. I try to pick the most relevant depending on the issue. Sometimes a question can fit in multiple categories, the only hard rule that I apply for sure is that anything related to (oled) displays, regardless of the issue, goes to displays (because david_prentice only looks there); and non-English in the English sections are moved if possible.
There is no obligation to participate in moving / editing.
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I like the idea of allowing trusted users to assist with the maintenance of the forum if they wish. But if you do not want this privilege I can lock you to TL2.
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Thank you @pert
It's a big deal, so if I find an obvious category selection mistake, we'll help you move it to the desired location. 
Off topic:
IMO; I feel that the number of categories in this forum is a too much.
I also feel that beginners wrong categorie posts tend to be concentrated in some categories.
But well, there's nothing wrong with it here.
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Thanks!
I agree. I have always thought this, but it really hit home this week when I had to change the auto-close setting to 6 months for every category on the forum.
It doesn't seem that categories are ever removed once created, even when they have become utterly obsolete, so the number just keeps getting higher and higher over time.
Fortunately, Discourse provides a search field when you are changing the category of a topic. With the old SMF software you had to scroll through the whole list and the ones we are most often moving to are the international categories, which were at the bottom! That only fixes one small issue for a small group of people, but it sure is convenient!
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You are not obliged to do so but we will certainly be thankful if you do. Some are obviously wrong, sometimes I see one flagged to the mods and I can't decide if it's girth or wrong or where to move it to. Some questions clearly could fit in 2 or more categories equally well. Just do the ones you are comfortable doing.
Thank you 
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This sort of "partial moderator" position seems like a good idea to me...
Yes these are almost always about "their project" where as the description distinctly says otherwise. The same applies to Introductory Tutorials.
The one section that is increasingly being misused in my opinion is "Hardware" From what I can see this is a group of forums that relate to specific hardware platforms, not hardware in general. This along with the naming of the "Defer" button, suggests that the people who set up the names were not native English speakers, and while the translations may be strictly accurate they are used in a context that is not what a native speaker would expect. I would suggest Hardware is renamed Platforms, and Defer renamed to Later.
I quite agree.
Do you want to do it?
Well, I've often thought "No, that's not a bootloader question; too bad I can't move it." with the side-thought that actually being a moderator sounds like a much greater responsibility (and more work than I'm probably willing to do.) (for example, I'd not be too keen on having every moved post needing a manually-generated "this post was moved to xxx", which moderators were doing for a while.
So... Maybe?
We have "canned replies" for most of the common actions.
Close enough. Use the privilege if you like. If you decide you don't want it, just message one of the moderators and we'll put you back on Trust Level 2.
Making the reply to explain the move is not mandatory.
Heh. Should we or shouldn't we: fix all those posts with titles like "need help!" ?
Hello
If the Arduino team wants to have support from the users with the am TL than enable the access to canned answers too.
I would suggest that would be a good idea, put put a post saying you have done so.