Continuing the discussion from Default email settings for a new user : [image] Default email settings for a new user FEATURE: global admin override of most of the user preferences · discourse/discourse@bef8063 · GitHub So, now that this feature is in place, I want to make sure new users are wa…

Just checked and if you put a category that has some permission as a default, new users who doesn’t match these permissions won’t have that category in their list :wink:

Confirming - it's OK to set default watch for categories a user can't see

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 23, 2015, 3:01am 2

Good question! I doubt anything bad will happen but a good idea for @zogstrip to check.

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Make members of a group watch a category by default

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Confirming - it's OK to set default watch for categories a user can't see

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