# Setting a category's notifications to "tracking" not working as expected?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [February 24, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313 "2022-02-24T19:58:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-categorys-notifications-to-tracking-not-working-as-expected/219313/1 "2022-02-24T19:58:56Z")

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I don’t understand how the “Tracking” category notification setting is intended to work, but I assumed that it would behave as though all new topics within that category would have their **topic** notification setting selected as “Tracking.” That doesn’t appear to be the case, not on our (hosted) instance where I first noticed it and not here.

This morning, I set the #Support category to have a notification setting of “Tracking.” I had zero unread posts when I did that. Upon returning to the site later today, I see there are two new posts with tiny blue dots (marking them as “new topics”), but without entering my typical unread queue:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/c/3c993647b4f738498c9965f334901c2fea3852a7.png)

Upon entering one, I see its notification setting is “Normal”:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/e/1ec5445812a4ddb5cf64803cac390bdb8511c8d5.png)

Shouldn’t this be “Tracking”? And shouldn’t it be tagged as unread?

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