# Same Behaviour of Muted Category in all the SITE

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/same-behaviour-of-muted-category-in-all-the-site/116576>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [5월 1, 2019, 2:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/same-behaviour-of-muted-category-in-all-the-site/116576 "2019-05-01T14:04:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [5월 1, 2019, 2:49오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/same-behaviour-of-muted-category-in-all-the-site/116576/4 "2019-05-01T14:49:14Z")

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> [@hhlp](#):
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> in this case don’t have sense show the muted parent categories… because it will be to noisy visually

How would you show the child categories and indicate their relationship without the parent to group them? N new category rows would be more noisy visually than a single new category row and the compact subcategory display.

Take #howto as an example:

 ![51%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/9/19a59976f6214897f90aa2fa8ff78e5d3b174ec5.png)

The title could be de-emphasized or an icon added to the left and description hidden when muted, but keep the subcategories visible as they’ve not been muted and will still appear in /latest. The alternative would be six new rows, with no indicator that they were related by a parent category.

 ![46%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/b/eba99be8b0e40b80befaae644513bcd975beddf6.png)

> [@hhlp](#):
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> also I configured the sub-category (or child) with parent category it would be nice if there is inheritance in muted…

So what happens if someone only wants to mute the parent and then certain subcategories? That’s a sweeping change which could create a _lot_ of confusion.

Meta has a good example if this, what if I want to see all #feature:announcements, but not every #Contribute > Feature post. Your suggestion would make that impossible:

 ![41%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/6/b61697b29fc752e60814b9f96ca75d29c51145b7.png)

You’re asking for a sledgehammer to save yourself a few clicks, and make more fine-grained muting impossible.

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