# "Silent" topic updates that don't trigger notifications?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967 "2020-07-06T21:55:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@olegbc1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/olegbc1)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/1 "2020-07-06T21:55:54Z")
Our forum implementation has an “Announcements” category, and all user accounts are automatically watching the first post in it. We’ve also put our [Community Guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines) topic in there and have not realized that when we make updates to the guildelines, most users would get email notifications about it.
As such, is there a way to create or edit a topic in this category without triggerring notifications? I don’t want to override the setting for all users permanently.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/2 "2020-07-06T22:08:23Z")
You seem to want contradictory things, I’m not sure how to resolve that. Perhaps put the less essential things in a different category?
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### Author:  [@olegbc1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/olegbc1)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/3 "2020-07-06T22:12:04Z")
This is a fair assessment and I appreciate you taking the time to answer. The dilema is that we want to keep the [Community Guidelines](https://meta.discourse.org/guidelines) in a category where it would be percieved to apply across the whole forum, not just specific to a category where we’d move it. As such “Announcements” makes most sense within our structure. But the drawback is that every edit will trigger notifications that it would make sense to avoid sometimes.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/4 "2020-07-06T22:14:48Z")
Or put them in a different category, make the edit, then recategorize them? 🤔
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### Author:  [@olegbc1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/olegbc1)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/5 "2020-07-06T22:28:11Z")
Wouldn’t moving a topic back into Announcements trigger a notification?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/6 "2020-07-06T22:28:59Z")
I’m not sure. But I can’t think of anything else when you want conflicting behavior? Maybe test it out and see.
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### Author:  [@olegbc1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/olegbc1)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/silent-topic-updates-that-dont-trigger-notifications/156967/7 "2020-07-06T22:36:04Z")
Just tested. Yep moving a topic triggers a notification 🙂 Perhaps a feature request for forced silent updates is in order? 🙂