# Tópicos carregam configurações de fechamento automático ao serem movidos para outra categoria
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Setembro 7, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601 "2018-09-07T07:26:26Z")
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [Setembro 7, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601/1 "2018-09-07T07:26:26Z")
Yesterday we found out that user System had closed a topic in a circumstance where it shouldn’t have done anything. After discarding the idea of our server reaching singularity, we found what the actual problem was. A bug that I bet you can also reproduce:
1. Set a category to close topics after N hours.
2. Create a topic in that category.
3. Move the topic to a different category that has no automatic close settings (say, because it had been misfiled in the wrong category).
EXPECTED
The topic remains open because it sits in a category where topics are not closed automatically.
ACTUALLY
The topic closes N hours after its creation regardless, because it carried the former category setting when moved away.
I think this bug has certain entity as described. This automatic closing from user System is done silently, and we only realized the topic had been closed after a user willing to respond complained (they thought we had closed the topic in a heavily handed moderation way).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Setembro 7, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601/2 "2018-09-07T09:24:31Z")
I would say this is as expected. The _topic_ had auto-close set at the time of creation in the category it was created in. Moving it to another category wouldn’t affect that.
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### Author:  [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)
#### Post date: [Setembro 7, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601/3 "2018-09-07T13:23:07Z")
Mmmok, now that this happened in our forum a second time (a user creating a topic in the wrong category and then me moving it to the right one), I see that there is a notice telling you that the topic will be closed automatically, and then in the moderation actions there is an options to reset auto-close.
Good enough for this corner case. Thank you for your quick reply.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [Setembro 7, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601/4 "2018-09-07T15:08:13Z")