# Disabling automatic topic unpinning?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 12, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507 "2015-11-12T21:15:37Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-automatic-topic-unpinning/35507/9 "2015-11-17T18:04:54Z")

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> [@dictoon](#):
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> Not sure to understand why there are two settings (Automatically unpin and Automatically unpin by default) since there are no per-topic unpin setting… Yet?

The “`automatically_unpin_topics`” setting is used to **globally** enable/disable the feature while the “`default_topics_automatic_unpin`” setting is used to set the **default** user preference.

You might want to have the feature enabled globally but defaulted to off for your new users.

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