# 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 11 月 13 日午前 8:27 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: ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [2016 年 7 月 1 日午後 6:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127/45 "2016-07-01T18:37:48Z")

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> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
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> In the official user defaults, I have every user watch all relevant categories by default. If they aren’t in a group which gives them permission to view - they simply don’t get the messages. No problem.

Thank you for clarifying this! I’ve wanted to try it, but [`mailcatcher` doesn’t work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mini-racer-installation-issues-on-ubuntu-vagrant-osx/44681/27) on my development server. And thus had no way of testing email notifications, except on production 🙀

> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
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> however, the logic as to which groups to remove them from based on what membership could get really ichy if two groups each grant access to a given category, and a user is removed from just one group.

Ah, true. I hadn’t thought of this case. It could get really hairy. Like Sasquatch hairy. 🐒

I should note that I haven’t tried my plugin in production, as I wanted to figure out the the permission stuff first. I’ll try it over the weekend. People are less likely to be looking at the forum then – in case it explodes.

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