# Better terms for watching (and tracking?)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-terms-for-watching-and-tracking/61038
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [4월 15, 2017, 5:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-terms-for-watching-and-tracking/61038 "2017-04-15T17:17:08Z")
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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2017, 9:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-terms-for-watching-and-tracking/61038/19 "2017-04-17T21:47:21Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> “the sky is falling”

I don’t believe the sky is falling, nor was it my intention to imply as much.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> For the record, I don’t see systemic confusion over notification levels, across the hundreds of site we host and support.

While I don’t have a similar size of data, I have now moderated (or admin’d) 4 different Discourse sites, all with very different purposes (gaming, knowledge-base, internal site, ticket system). For most users (likely ~90%) I never heard anything about notifications levels, positive, neutral, or negative. My _guess_, (this would be an interesting [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) query), is that those users never touched notification levels, as the defaults were good. (Side note, that speaks volumes to the defaults the team has chosen). Where the issue lies in when users start asking about notification levels, and request enough detail that we start to deal with the overlap of settings and such. [This back and forth](https://meta.discourse.org/t/actual-difference-between-tracked-and-watching-first-post/61036/19) is a good example of the types of discussions I’ve had on my different sites, as well as offline when leading a training session.

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