# Exclude category posts from displaying on home page?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-posts-from-displaying-on-home-page/125035
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-posts-from-displaying-on-home-page/125035 "2019-08-06T19:20:42Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-category-posts-from-displaying-on-home-page/125035/4 "2019-08-09T03:20:21Z")

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I support removing this setting, but I worry that we are giving admins no easy avenue to set all users to mute specific categories historically. This makes it particularly difficult when you add a category and want it default muted.

How do you feel about providing admins with some UX here? In particular:

- Admin adds a category to `default_categories_muted` (same for watched etc)
- We detect … oh something changed…
  - Would you like all existing users to have “category X” muted?
  - Would you like to remove the category mute from N users?

I like this cause this provide a very clean way for admins to deal with this problem and it has happened countless times now on meta. With this in place I would love to nuke that category setting.

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