# Tracking after "reply as new topic"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-after-reply-as-new-topic/15876
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 22, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-after-reply-as-new-topic/15876 "2014-05-22T13:15:14Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-after-reply-as-new-topic/15876/6 "2014-05-22T23:06:02Z")

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Would be kind of griefing if I took your post / topic and “replied as new topic” 15 times, and you were _forced_ to track all those new topics.

So this is by design from my perspective.

**You are always _notified_ that someone “replied as new topic” to your post** (this feature is relatively new), and that should suffice for guidance to check out the new topic, read it (which can infer tracking if over 4 minutes of reading), or reply to it (which infers tracking), or otherwise manually set notifications on it.

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