# Old unread topic doesn’t show up as unread in tracked category

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-unread-topic-doesn-t-show-up-as-unread-in-tracked-category/75681
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [8 december 2017 om 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-unread-topic-doesn-t-show-up-as-unread-in-tracked-category/75681 "2017-12-08T12:12:57Z")
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### Author: ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [8 december 2017 om 16:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/old-unread-topic-doesn-t-show-up-as-unread-in-tracked-category/75681/5 "2017-12-08T16:59:09Z")

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My rough imperfect translation is

- mute - I don’t care, don’t bother me
- normal - I’ll find them on my own thanks
- tracking - if it involves me let me know about it
- watching - I want to know about everything that happens

I have quite a few categories set to Watching and necro’d topics I have not previously visited in those categories come to my attention without a problem.

Any reasons Watching doesn’t work for you?

EDIT  
(feels off-topic, but might be related)  
Maybe not so much “without a problem”. It took me a bit of scrolling but I found a topic in the Feature category (that I Watch) that I had not visited, but was not a New and had the notifications level Nomal.

> [@The option to enforce tagging](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-option-to-enforce-tagging/69527):
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> I’ve requested in the past that there be a setting to enforce the use of at least one pre-existing tag when creating a topic. I’m now aware of 3 separate use cases for this requirement (all current Discourse clients). More community structures are becoming reliant on tagging. Communities that rely on tags for [surfacing content](https://experts.feverbee.com/). Large communities that use complex tags and tag groups for their AI. I’ve forgotten the details of the third one but I’ll edit it in. These are creating a heavy mod l…

I’m guessing it was started in a category I’m not watching, was moved, and the edit history indicating the move was deleted?

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