# Set 'Watching First Post' for certain categories, for entire Community
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2016年十月13日 01:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475 "2016-10-13T01:11:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Veenema](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Veenema)
#### Post date: [2016年十月13日 01:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/1 "2016-10-13T01:11:53Z")
Hey all!
Wondering if you have a solution for us. Ideally, we would like users of our Community to automatically be notified (via email, and in community notifications) of new posts in the following categories:
* * *
**So two questions:**
1. We don’t want them to receive emails for every new _comment_, just every new _topic_. Is there a way to set that for all users in our Community? Will adding these to ‘ **Default Categories Tracking** ’ do the trick?
2. Is there a way we can override the current settings for users? Our Community is a little over a month old, and we’re wishing we set this from the beginning. They can opt-out if they wish, but it’s important that they see notifications for new topics in these categories.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016年十月13日 03:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/2 "2016-10-13T03:22:29Z")
aha, when we added “watch first post” we missed adding the default site setting.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Veenema](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Veenema)
#### Post date: [2016年十月13日 20:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/3 "2016-10-13T20:22:42Z")
Ahhh, okay!
Any idea when we can get this added? Also, would this actually send out an **email** as I’m hoping it would?
Thanks guys!
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### Author:  [@David\_Lee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/David_Lee)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月4日 06:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/4 "2016-11-04T06:43:23Z")
+1 on this: it’s key to running a mixed used case where we want to run one or more categories in a mailing list format, and others in a conventional 2-way discussion mode.
Thanks,
David
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Veenema](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Justin_Veenema)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月8日 00:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/5 "2016-11-08T00:05:08Z")
Yessss, exactly! This is basically what we’re trying to do.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月8日 00:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/6 "2016-11-08T00:05:38Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> when we added “watch first post” we missed adding the default site setting.
Sure @techapj can this be on your list?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月9日 18:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/7 "2016-11-09T18:55:07Z")
Okay, done via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9e69798285078e017501973872f1bf1c2beddd9b](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9e69798285078e017501973872f1bf1c2beddd9b)
> [@Justin\_Veenema](#):
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> Is there a way we can override the current settings for users?
Sure, I can run a query for your instance which will change this setting for all the existing users. You can PM me the details.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年十一月10日 20:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-watching-first-post-for-certain-categories-for-entire-community/51475/8 "2016-11-10T20:44:35Z")
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