# I topic mantengono le impostazioni di chiusura automatica quando spostati in un'altra categoria

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topics-carry-automatic-close-settings-when-moved-to-another-category/96601>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [7 Settembre 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://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/icaria36/32/426431_2.png) [@icaria36](https://meta.discourse.org/u/icaria36)\
**Post date:** [7 Settembre 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")

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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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