# 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:** [11월 13, 2014, 8:27오전 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:** [7월 15, 2016, 8:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127/53 "2016-07-15T08:16:07Z")

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I’m wondering if any of the mailing list crowd have played around with the updated group PMs.

I’m thinking of using a category for inter-group communication and using the group PM to allow non-group users to contact them. (I thought of doing it the other way around, but it wouldn’t make sense in my case. Non-group users might not want their messages publicly viewable.)

I don’t know if group PMs are covered by Sam’s recent changes to the watching feature: [Watching and tracking implementation for tags and categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-and-tracking-implementation-for-tags-and-categories/46987)

In any case, if they’re not now, I assume they would be eventually.

Can someone suggest how to programatically change the watch state for group PMs?

I’m looking for the group PM equivalent for this: [discourse-watch-category/plugin.rb at master · amical/discourse-watch-category · GitHub](https://github.com/amical/discourse-watch-category/blob/master/plugin.rb#L37-L38)

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