# Mute category to mute all children categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-category-to-mute-all-children-categories/15098>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [2014年四月27日 00:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-category-to-mute-all-children-categories/15098 "2014-04-27T00:36:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ram-Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ram-Z](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ram-Z)\
**Post date:** [2016年十月3日 22:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mute-category-to-mute-all-children-categories/15098/4 "2016-10-03T22:00:10Z")

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Muting sub-categories would very much be the expected behaviour.

The way to implement this cleanly (from a user perspective) would be to add a new notification mode to sub-categories called “Inherit from parent” and make this the default. Users could then explicitely set the notification level for sub-categories if they so choose.

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