Moving old posts to a different category triggers email notifications for anyone watching that category. I need to do a bit of re-organization at my site, but it’s going to be confusing to folks if they receive notifications for these old posts. Is there I way I can temporarily disable this behavior while I’m moving things around?

I haven’t tested it but the disable category edit notifications setting looks promising.

i think you looking for this setting create revision on bulk topic moves

That didn’t work for me? I turned it off, moved a topic, and the ‘watching first post’ user still got a notification. Is there anything else I needed to do? Edit: I had a brainfart, and didn’t do a bulk move. I’ll try again. :slightly_smiling_face: Update: It still sends the watching first post notification when I use the bulk move too? I’ve tried a few times and I can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong? I had to do a similar thing a small while back, and I went old school and put a notice up saying that I was moving/going to be moving a chunk of topics from one category to another, and that people who were ‘Watching First Post’ may get a few spam-like notifications. I was hoping it would give people a chance to change their category notifications (or just be aware and ignore them). It wasn’t so bad, though a couple of people missed the notice and were a little confused. Looking at it again now I know more about the admin settings, it may be possible to default the category notification in the admin settings to normal muted, which would stop the watching first post notifications - but I don’t know how you’d ‘reset’ it to what it was before once you’d finished? There are a few tips in this older post that might be useful: [image] Any way to NOT send emails when a topic category is changed? Support Changing the category with bulk selection will trigger notifications/emails to users that are watching the destination category. There are a couple options to prevent this: Gather the topic ids and use the rails console to change the category. If there are a lot of topics, you can use the Data Explorer to track down a set of topic ids, otherwise you can get them manually. This method bypasses all notifications/emails. You can bulk unlist the topics in their current category, then move the…

Same here. I had create revision on bulk topic moves disabled when email was triggered.

[image] Simon_Manning: I haven’t tested it but the disable category edit notifications setting looks promising. I forgot that existed. :slightly_smiling_face: I’ve just tested it, and it does not send a notification. :+1: (bulk move, or regular recategorise)

You might want to mark @Simon_Manning’s post as the solution, so the answer shows up properly in the OP. :+1:

Moving old posts triggers email notifications

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alehandrof (Alex Armstrong) November 5, 2021, 11:47am 7

That sounds like the right setting, thanks!

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