# Can watching a category watch all its subcategories as well?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-watching-a-category-watch-all-its-subcategories-as-well/69306
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4. September 2017 um 01:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-watching-a-category-watch-all-its-subcategories-as-well/69306 "2017-09-04T01:38:41Z")
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### Author: ![wolftune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wolftune/32/103569_2.png) [@wolftune](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wolftune)
#### Post date: [29. August 2018 um 00:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-watching-a-category-watch-all-its-subcategories-as-well/69306/3 "2018-08-29T00:02:51Z")

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This seems relevant:

> [@Mute category to mute all children categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-category-to-mute-all-children-categories/15098/4):
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> Muting sub-categories would very much be the expected behaviour. The way to implement this cleanly (from a user perspective) would be to add a new notification mode to sub-categories called “Inherit from parent” and make this the default. Users could then explicitely set the notification level for sub-categories if they so choose.

But anyway, can I get clarity on the intended situation? There _no_ relation between watch settings for categories and subcategories? They each are changed independently, and _only_ posts directly in the top-level category are affected by its watch settings?

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