# Group administration functions should be better surfaced **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [March 22, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303 "2019-03-22T06:17:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303/8 "2019-05-20T04:16:59Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Why do you need to _force_ people to watch a category? I’m very unclear about this. Forcing people to do things does not generally work well in my experience. Forcing people to do things when you’re paying them to do it isn’t particularly tricky, the answer is usually to make it as easy as possible. I’m aware of a number of sites who have used a fork of [discourse-watch-category-mcneel](https://github.com/notstephen/discourse-watch-category-mcneel/network/members) and numerous others who are falling over themselves for mandatory category subscriptions. There are _lots_ of professional settings where mandatory circulation is a requirement. Up until now that was achieved by distribution lists, but with the goal of getting ‘out of the inbox’ the ability to tie group membership to watched categories becomes vital. In any regulated field, staff need to be kept informed. The responsibility for disseminating that information falls on a few hands within the organisation. Relying on individuals to manually take the extra step to watch a category isn’t an acceptable risk to them - they’re the kinds of situation where noncompliance will impact the organisation, rather than the individual. The problem becomes compounded when someone moves laterally, they’re going to need to change groups and receive a different subset of the organisation’s policy. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-administration-functions-should-be-better-surfaced/112303)._