# Question about muting a category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2 februari 2017 om 14:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795 "2017-02-02T14:37:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [2 februari 2017 om 14:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/1 "2017-02-02T14:37:52Z")
Let’s say I create a new category called “For Sale” but I don’t want those kinds of posts to appear in those “you haven’t visited in a while” Summary emails.
So in the Admin section for “default categories muted”, I list this new “For Sale” category.
For all existing members, will they or will they not see “For Sale” posts in their Summary emails?
I ask because I would assume the answer is No but unfortunately users are seeing “For Sale” posts in their Summary emails.
Thanks for any light someone can shed!
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2 februari 2017 om 14:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/2 "2017-02-02T14:58:49Z")
You need to set it historically to muted for all existing users, see the following topic
> [@(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165?source_topic_id=46987):
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> warning Following the release of Discourse v2.4.0.beta7 (or if you have [this commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b2f682f35eba0cc3f09588356ecf8d1dd824542f)), admins now have the option to set the category tracking levels of all existing users when setting the default category tracking levels in their site settings: Add a category to one of the following site settings, then select the green checkbox button. A modal window will pop up with the following options: play_button The old way using the console
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [2 februari 2017 om 16:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/3 "2017-02-02T16:25:07Z")
Ahhh, thanks. We don’t have rails console access at our current host but I wonder if I can use the Discourse API to do this. I’ll have to do some investigating.
Thanks for the info!
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2 februari 2017 om 16:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/4 "2017-02-02T16:27:24Z")
If you’re hosted by Discourse you can request that they run the rails commands for you. If you’re hosted elsewhere (like Discourse Hosting), you should be able to ask them to do it - that’s why you pay for hosting!
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### Author:  [@lkramer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lkramer)
#### Post date: [2 februari 2017 om 21:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/5 "2017-02-02T21:28:01Z")
I’ll try that. We use [Communiteq](https://www.communiteq.com) (formerly DiscourseHosting). Thx for the tip.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28 april 2019 om 20:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/6 "2019-04-28T20:58:11Z")
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [28 april 2019 om 22:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-about-muting-a-category/56795/7 "2019-04-28T22:03:08Z")