A user twofoursixeight reports being automatically marked as “Watching” a topic they did not create, despite Discourse indicating they are watching it because they created it. The topic in question is accidentily-deleted-the-main-sidebar-section. schneeland initially suggests it may be due to automatic topic tracking based on time spent, but later corrects themselves 4. Moin clarifies that “tracking” and “watching” are different, and speculates the user may have accidentally pressed the keyboard shortcut m,w — though that still wouldn’t explain the “you created it” reason. JammyDodger offers a plausible cause: if the topic was split from another, Discourse may automatically set the new topic to “Watching” with the reason “you created it” — even if the user didn’t originally create the parent topic. Other users, like LxmasWasntHere, confirm experiencing similar issues. The consensus leans toward topic splitting or accidental keyboard shortcuts as the likely culprits, with configuration changes possibly playing a role.
Potentially it’s happening because of the automatic tracking due to time spent on a topic (configured via Preferences->Tracking->Topics->Automatically track topics I enter - in particular: if you had it disabled previously, I think it somehow got reset with one of the latest updates).
But then you are “tracking” and not “watching” the topic 
I can imagine you are watching a topic because you accidentially hit the keyboard shortcut m,w. But then you should still not be watching because you created the topic.
Ah, yes! Mixed that up.
I kept having this issue..
Did you split the topic out from another one? I’ve found that this sets the new topic to Watching for me with the reason ‘you created it’.
