On a forum where the default setting is watching certain categories, with email notifications, and where hardly anyone has changed their settings – and where one topic which maybe won’t interest most people becomes very busy – how could a single topic be changed from “watching” to “tracking” for all…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 5 december 2021 om 11:42 2

The place to look is Administrative Bulk Operations. I don’t think it includes exactly that case but it might have something close.

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Changing the category to tracking by default Support	7	684	19 februari 2021
Set category notification state historically Feature	10	3789	8 juli 2016
Unwatch all currently watched topics Support	3	606	12 juni 2020
Allow normal users to bulk update notification level Feature bulk-actions	3	913	18 juni 2025
When changing category watch state, prompt to also change state of all topics in that category at the time of change Feature	23	4859	8 juli 2016