Automatically watching a topic that I did not create or choose to watch


^ So this is what the Watching symbol is supposed to say:

However, I found this weird topic. Discourse thinks I am watching this topic because I created it, but this is not my topic. I did not create this, yet Discourse decideds to watch it.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

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Potentially it’s happening because of the automatic tracking due to time spent on a topic (configured via Preferences->Tracking->Topics->Automatically track topics I enter - in particular: if you had it disabled previously, I think it somehow got reset with one of the latest updates).

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But then you are “tracking” and not “watching” the topic :thinking:

I can imagine you are watching a topic because you accidentially hit the keyboard shortcut m,w. But then you should still not be watching because you created the topic.

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Ah, yes! Mixed that up.

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I kept having this issue…

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Did you split the topic out from another one? I’ve found that this sets the new topic to Watching for me with the reason ‘you created it’.

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