# Actual difference between "tracked" and "watching first post"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/actual-difference-between-tracked-and-watching-first-post/61036
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017 年 4 月 15 日午後 2:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/actual-difference-between-tracked-and-watching-first-post/61036 "2017-04-15T14:43:54Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2017 年 4 月 15 日午後 4:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/actual-difference-between-tracked-and-watching-first-post/61036/6 "2017-04-15T16:20:19Z")

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I met with two people yesterday who are using a category on our forum to run a short course and wanted to understand what notification level to advise users to set on the category.

We were similarly confused.

Maybe what I said above is wrong. I’m not sure that “Watching First Post” implies you will track all topics in the category. Maybe it doesn’t.

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