Force users to watch a category?

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

You may be looking for this plugin:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-watch-category-mcneel

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Closing this topic in favor of:

Make members of a group watch a category by default

We have a private category, limited to a particular opt-in group of Discourse members for our organization. Say it’s “staff” – it’s not actually, but it’s along those lines. I want to make sure that all staff receive prompt notifications of discussions in that private category. We encourage them to set their category settings to “watching” but I don’t think many of them have. Under the category’s security settings, when I say “staff can create/reply/see” I’d love it if there were a way to sa…