Prevent topics of muted categories from showing up in summary email

[debryc (Deborah Chang)]

@simon

From looking at the code, it seems that muted topics are supposed to be excluded from the summary email. Note that it is muted topics that are excluded, not topics that are in muted categories . Where this could be significant is if a user who has muted a category has interacted with one of that category’s topics in a way that would set their notification level for the topic to anything other than muted. This would happen if the user had replied to the topic prior to muting its category, or if the user had spent time reading the topic, or replied to it after having muted the category.

No, this user has not interacted at all with the internal comms topic that I highlighted.

@downey

I would expect topic-level watching, etc., to override a category mute. Moreso in “real time” email notifications, but also in the summary digest although my usage of summaries tends to be more about finding topics I haven’t jumped into, yet.

I agree with this. Topic level watch settings should override category settings. So, if I’m watching or tracking a topic in an otherwise muted category, I should be able to see that topic in my summary email.

@downey

my usage of summaries tends to be more about finding topics I haven’t jumped into, yet.

Michael, would you want to see topics in categories that you’ve muted, though? I mute categories because I’m not interested, so I wouldn’t want to see them in my summary email either.