# Following categories
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996 "2018-02-20T04:09:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Guy\_Fawkes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Guy_Fawkes)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/1 "2018-02-20T04:09:59Z")
is it possible to make all the categories in “Mute” option instead of the “Normal” ?
And how ?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/2 "2018-02-20T04:21:21Z")
Do you mean for yourself or for all users by default?
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### Author:  [@Guy\_Fawkes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Guy_Fawkes)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/3 "2018-02-20T04:24:06Z")
for all users by default so they can follow the categories they are interested in by themselves .
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/4 "2018-02-20T04:25:30Z")
By default people don’t follow any categories…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/5 "2020-06-04T10:35:20Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/6 "2020-06-05T04:55:55Z")
I believe we eventually added an option to mute all categories by default?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/following-categories/80996/7 "2020-06-05T06:41:20Z")
We sure did `mute all categories by default`
