Make members of a group watch a category by default

[alehandrof (Alex Armstrong)]

The settings will stay the same if you disable/uninstall the plugin.

This post explains how to change settings for multiple users if, for example, you want to have them stop watching a category (i.e., “unsubscribe”):

(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically

That sounds about right Thanks to everyone here for helping me. For those playing at home, here’s a summary of the last 15 posts or so. How to make all users watch (or unwatch) a specific category through the rails console Set your parameters: # Levels → :tracking :watching :watching_first_post :muted level = :watching category_slug = "announcements" And then, to make everyone watch (or whatever level you set) this category: User.all.each do |user| CategoryUser.batch_set(user…