# 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:** ![LeoMcA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leomca/32/87233_2.png) [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)\
**Post date:** [2018年二月12日 12:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127/71 "2018-02-12T12:07:17Z")

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I created an RFC for the implementation side of this a while back (I’m sure I linked to it _somewhere_ in this thread):

> [@Spec: set group default category notification settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spec-set-group-default-category-notification-settings/55148):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Make members of a group watch a category by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127): (splitting out from this topic, because it’s quite old, there’s a bit of noise, and I really want this.) We have the need to set the default notification settings of groups on our Discourse instance within Mozilla, and I’d like to build the feature upstream because it seems like its something a number of users could benefit from. I see this being implemented in much the same way that default category notificat…

But it looks like the consensus is for implementing this as a plugin. That’s something I plan to do at some point, but I can’t say when.

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