# Category watch only for initial thread post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watch-only-for-initial-thread-post/42114
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watch-only-for-initial-thread-post/42114 "2016-04-06T06:43:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jacotec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jacotec)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watch-only-for-initial-thread-post/42114/1 "2016-04-06T06:43:16Z")
Hi,
I’m using Discourse also as comment engine for some of my Wordpress sites, using the WP-Discourse plugin. That works really great.
Generally this would also be a perfect email notification tool for new articles as Discourse produces awesome notification emails.
I’d love to have the ability to set the announcement / portal news category as watched for each user, but with the limitaion that this “common watch” is only valid for the first post of a new topic. Any new post in the announcement category will immediately inform the users about the news by email, but they would not be annoyed by emails for discussion replies to the initial post (unless they decide to watch the particular topic).
This might be of use also apart from news/announcement categories. If a user is highly interested in getting a notification of new topics of a category but wants to decide if he’d like to follow a particular thread in detail or not, an option “watch new topics” for a category could be also useful.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watch-only-for-initial-thread-post/42114/2 "2016-04-06T11:12:16Z")
It’s been requested before, but there are no current plans:
> [@'Watching' for first messages only](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-for-first-messages-only/35143/19):
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> Sounds like an implicit request for more frequent digest email options to me. We don’t have any plans to work on this in the near future. If you’d like to purchase an enterprise hosting contract, we can consider adding it in some form, but I strongly oppose adding additional notification states beyond the four that we currently have (muted, normal, tracking, watching). Otherwise you can sponsor the feature in the marketplace category here if you have budget for it.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-watch-only-for-initial-thread-post/42114/3 "2016-04-06T16:44:25Z")