# Suggestion: watched category auto-set when added to group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-watched-category-auto-set-when-added-to-group/73762
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 9, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-watched-category-auto-set-when-added-to-group/73762 "2017-11-09T14:16:46Z")
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### Author: ![LeoMcA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leomca/32/87233_2.png) [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-watched-category-auto-set-when-added-to-group/73762/4 "2017-11-09T16:49:36Z")

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I wrote an RFC in this vein a while back:

> [@Spec: set group default category notification settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spec-set-group-default-category-notification-settings/55148):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Make members of a group watch a category by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127): (splitting out from this topic, because it’s quite old, there’s a bit of noise, and I really want this.) We have the need to set the default notification settings of groups on our Discourse instance within Mozilla, and I’d like to build the feature upstream because it seems like its something a number of users could benefit from. I see this being implemented in much the same way that default category notificat…

Haven’t been able to find the development time for it yet, though.

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