TLDR: Feb 2024 Google is changing their acceptable spam ratio to 0.3%. I want to reduce outbound email volume to avoid getting flagged. (3 spam flags/1000 emails will get your domain blacklisted). I need to procedurally change ‘watching first post’ for certain groups. My nonprofit is a physical org…

Then a rails command that removed watches for the users from the expired group might be a solution. I can’t remember if changing the setting for the group will offer to apply it to all members. You might give that a go (make the expired group watch the category and then remove that watch?)

[image] Frully: Is there a way to remove track settings that were added by group membership? (ie on group leave, undo whatever was added). I think that’s what to do. Remove those watched categories when they leave. You can Reverse engineer the Discourse API to find the API call to change thei…

The trouble is I have hundreds of users in this boat. Setting it up for future is bonus but having an explicit null empty list would be a great feature.

I’ll give that a shot. I know the addition of a watch will offer recursive. I couldn’t find a way to remove a watch that wasn’t there. You’re right it might be a matter of adding and removing.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: make the expired group watch the category and then remove that watch This is the magic. Adding to a group that lacks the flag doesn’t assert removal of the flag - that would be a nightmare to maintain…but retroactively applying the flag and then removing the flag to the …

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 18, 2024, 4:51pm 2

I think that’s what to do. Remove those watched categories when they leave. You can Reverse engineer the Discourse API to find the API call to change their watched categories.

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Groups can set category and tag notification levels Announcements new-feature , groups , notifications	17	3555	August 16, 2021
How to Automatically Mute Categories When a User Leaves a Group? Support	17	224	March 12, 2025
Make members of a group watch a category by default Feature completed	88	25487	April 21, 2022
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