# Is any possibility to automatically make the topic's notification level as «Watching» instead of «Tracking» for a user who have posted a reply to this topic?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-any-possibility-to-automatically-make-the-topics-notification-level-as-watching-instead-of-tracking-for-a-user-who-have-posted-a-reply-to-this-topic/51434
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 12, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-any-possibility-to-automatically-make-the-topics-notification-level-as-watching-instead-of-tracking-for-a-user-who-have-posted-a-reply-to-this-topic/51434 "2016-10-12T00:17:34Z")
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### Author:  [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-any-possibility-to-automatically-make-the-topics-notification-level-as-watching-instead-of-tracking-for-a-user-who-have-posted-a-reply-to-this-topic/51434/1 "2016-10-12T00:17:34Z")
When a user posts a reply to a topic, his notification level is automatically changed to the «`Tracking`» value.
When another user posts a reply to the same topic, the first user does not receive any notification.
So, is a possibility to automatically make the topic’s notification level as «`Watching`» instead of «`Tracking`» for a user who have posted a reply to this topic?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-any-possibility-to-automatically-make-the-topics-notification-level-as-watching-instead-of-tracking-for-a-user-who-have-posted-a-reply-to-this-topic/51434/2 "2016-10-12T00:19:21Z")
This exists if you are on latest, check your User Preferences.
> [@Automatically set Topics to Watching after posting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230/13):
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> Took over a year to find time, but I just submitted a PR to allow users to set Watching or Tracking as their default when replying. It defaults to Tracking [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4477](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4477) Screenshots: User preference page Admin user preference setting
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-any-possibility-to-automatically-make-the-topics-notification-level-as-watching-instead-of-tracking-for-a-user-who-have-posted-a-reply-to-this-topic/51434/3 "2016-10-12T00:29:34Z")