# Account for Tracked & not just Watched topics (Something between 'muted' and 'tracked' for categories)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/account-for-tracked-not-just-watched-topics-something-between-muted-and-tracked-for-categories/24929>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015 年 2 月 6 日午後 10:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/account-for-tracked-not-just-watched-topics-something-between-muted-and-tracked-for-categories/24929 "2015-02-06T22:28:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2015 年 2 月 6 日午後 11:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/account-for-tracked-not-just-watched-topics-something-between-muted-and-tracked-for-categories/24929/3 "2015-02-06T23:15:50Z")

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No, the issue is probably that switching a category to muted only affects _newly created_ topics in that category. That is, topics created _after_ you changed the setting.

If you switch a category to muted today, there might be thousands of existing topics that will still have their old notification state set. And since you have not muted those old topics you’ll continue to get notifications for them.

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