# Any way to prevent notifications for post merges, moves? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [Janeiro 8, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-prevent-notifications-for-post-merges-moves/23796 "2015-01-08T23:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\ **Post date:** [Junho 30, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-prevent-notifications-for-post-merges-moves/23796/9 "2018-06-30T21:44:03Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Changing the category won’t generate an email, only topic merges and splits will – as merges and splits result in posted notifications so you can find your way to the merge or split. If this is meant to imply that moving topics will trigger neither emails nor new topic notifications, then this information is outdated. I just moved an old release announcement into the announcement topic (which users are watching by default) and it looks like people were notified (at least I received a notification). So I immediately moved the topic back out of the announcements category, hoping that I would prevent emails from being sent out, but it didn’t, even though the emails were sent about 10 minutes after I had moved the topic back again (I just checked the exact times: topic moved out of announcement category: 11:12, `user_watching_first_post` email sent: 11:26). Is this supposed to happen? In any case, I’d like to raise this old question again: is there anyway of moving topics into a different category _without_ triggering notifications? Perhaps there could be a setting for “don’t notify new topics inactive for more than than … days”? That way you could move around old (in my case: imported) topics without people getting irrelevant notifications. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-prevent-notifications-for-post-merges-moves/23796)._