# Automatically set Topics to Watching after posting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230 "2014-10-17T12:01:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 12:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230/1 "2014-10-17T12:01:48Z")

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We’ve had this come up multiple times now, several of our users want topics they post/interact with to be automatically set to Watching. You can get it automatically set to Tracking, but the only way to get Watching is by Watching a category (and that puts topics you didn’t interact with in that state too, so it isn’t a plausible solution).

Is there a reason this functionality doesn’t exist? Or does it exist and we have no idea how to set it up?

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