# Automatically set Topics to Watching after posting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [17. Oktober 2014 um 12:01 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: [30. September 2016 um 19:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230/13 "2016-09-30T19:01:21Z")

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Took over a year to find time, but I just submitted a PR to allow users to set Watching or Tracking as their default when replying. **It defaults to Tracking**

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4477](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4477)

Screenshots:

User preference page

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/2/421ed4c1687ae8bf6a217416316e5f6892991e87.png)

Admin user preference setting

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/9/b9f50374337eaf0a7c4803cc07ed7adaed9b2940.png)

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