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

[twofoursixeight]

^ 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.

Accidentily deleted the main sidebar section

I accidentily deleted the “primary menu” here on meta and now i am wondering how i can get it back. and the same thing happened in the forum where I am an admin - there I deleted all the sections that appear in the “more” menu and by doing this I lost the option the change the primary menu. I was looking around here in the forum if others had the same issue but it seems that I am the first who admits it : )

Does anyone know why this is happening?

[schneeland]

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).

[Moin]

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

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.

[schneeland]

Ah, yes! Mixed that up.

[LxmasWasntHere]

I kept having this issue…

[JammyDodger]

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’.