I believe this goes something like this:
- Where historically topics have been created in Category “Amazeballs” and replies made to these topics.
- Reading posts in a topic for a (site setting based) amount of time (usually 4 minutes) will change your current “notification options” for that topic from “Regular” to “Tracking”.
- The current topic “notification options” can be seen at the bottom of any topic:
- Now adding the “Amazeballs” category the User Settings to “Watching” will:
- make all new topics created from this point forward in the “Amazeballs” category initially start with the “Watching” “notification options” state rather than the “Regular” state.
- Topics created before the “Amazeballs” category was added to the User Setting “Watching” will:
- continue to maintain their already defined “notification options” state.
- If you wish to start receiving notifications for a topic change the “notification options” to “Watching”:
- Even though you as a user have your settings for the “Amazeballs” category set to “Watching”; this only controls the initial “notification options” state for the newly created topics; so:
- A user always has the choice to change an individual topic to any “notification state” so they don’t receive notifications regardless of the category “Amazeballs” being added to “Watching” in user settings.