# Make members of a group watch a category by default

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [2014年十一月13日 08:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127 "2014-11-13T08:27:01Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [2014年十一月13日 11:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127/2 "2014-11-13T11:45:11Z")

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Interesting idea!

There’s a similar topic here, but your request is a little different since that is about site-wide defaults. Still, worth reading through that topic if you haven’t already.

> [@Default email settings for a new user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-settings-for-a-new-user/14980):
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> Is there a way to configure default options for new users in the realm of the email settings in preferences? As we have moved from a Google Group to Discourse, we’d like to encourage engagement by sensible defaults. And as most people are used to getting an email upon every reply, this will help us keep engagement up while allowing folks to turn it off if it gets to noisy? Specifically the last two options: Receive an email every time a post is made on the forum Receive email notifications …

Your idea could also be an approach to fulfill this request, by having an ‘announcements’ category that everyone is set to watch by default:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-options/21694?u=mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-options/21694)

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