# Track a Category or Tag with Notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/track-a-category-or-tag-with-notifications/30132>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015年六月17日 17:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/track-a-category-or-tag-with-notifications/30132 "2015-06-17T17:45:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [2015年六月17日 20:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/track-a-category-or-tag-with-notifications/30132/6 "2015-06-17T20:29:13Z")

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> [@downey](#):
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> Watching categories is already possible … so I could see the same UI/UX being extended to tags. and apparently so is watching tags.

I think you have misunderstood me Michael, I don’t want to watch that in the way the current watch system is set up - I only want to know when a new thread/topic is posted about a tag I am following (and then I want to decide whether it’s worth watching or tracking or not).

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I think a better idea is having simpler “unwatch” support from email.
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> You can already do this via:
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> Watch the tag  
> When you get the email about the new topic, unwatch it if not interested
> 
> It is the unwatch bit that is a visit to the site now.

I’m not so sure Jeff because after a while I think it will become annoying and probably lead to people just unfollowing the tag.

I’d guess that about 10% of topics per tag will be of relatively high interest, and then perhaps just 10% of those the user will actually want to ‘watch/track’ without replying to it. That’s a tiny percentage of all new topics per tag.

It’s like on the main forum now - only a small percentage of all threads will actually interest most regular users (to the extent of wanting to ‘watch’ them without replying) it would be annoying then if we had to unwatch all the threads that we didn’t want to watch to begin with even tho we are interested in the ‘Discourse’ tag (which is basically this forum).

Does that make sense?

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