# Notify users participating in a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [21. März 2017 um 17:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629 "2017-03-21T17:05:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [8. März 2018 um 09:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-users-participating-in-a-topic/59629/9 "2018-03-08T09:35:25Z")

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One slight issue I have here is that if you really cared you would watch the topic, so this indicates that we need some sort of mode where you do not care but we force the caring upon you

In other words, why is watching not good enough?

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