# Inadvertent flood of emails / notifications when attempting to silently move Topics between categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inadvertent-flood-of-emails-notifications-when-attempting-to-silently-move-topics-between-categories/390993
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** email, bulk-actions
**Created:** [December 10, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inadvertent-flood-of-emails-notifications-when-attempting-to-silently-move-topics-between-categories/390993 "2025-12-10T22:51:22Z")
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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: [December 11, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inadvertent-flood-of-emails-notifications-when-attempting-to-silently-move-topics-between-categories/390993/10 "2025-12-11T11:39:29Z")

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Ahah! I think I’ve found the issue 🐛

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36626/commits/97f2719231d549b7c38571bd7b8c351275e8d3fa](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36626/commits/97f2719231d549b7c38571bd7b8c351275e8d3fa)

The `@silent` option wasn’t propagating properly which caused users watching the **destination** category to receive notifications even when the “Perform this action silently” checkbox was checked.

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