# Muted Default Categories Not Working

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-default-categories-not-working/56425
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 26, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-default-categories-not-working/56425 "2017-01-26T22:09:36Z")
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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-default-categories-not-working/56425/3 "2017-01-26T22:24:19Z")

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This doesn’t seem like a bug to me. Default Muted Categories in Admin \> Settings do not work that way, it defaults the Muted Categories Preference for **new registrations** , not existing.

Instead you have to add that category to the Muted Category preference for all existing users (including your own).

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