Is there any permission setting somewhere, where I can disallow unwatching certain categories? We want a special category, in which first posts should be “must-reads” for certain groups. I know, I can put groups back in there before posting, but I’d like to disallow them to opt-out.

Welcome to Meta @pkoevesdi :wave: :tada: It isn’t possible to force users to un-watch a category easily out of the box. If you wanted to ‘force’ all users to watch a category there is the default categories watching site setting. If you wanted to ‘force’ all users in a group there is discourse.exa…

Thank You very much! I’d go with the “make them follow the category again”.

[immagine] Pkoevesdi: We want a special category, in which first posts should be “must-reads” for certain groups. You could use Discourse Policy . Then users would also receive reminders untill they click the button.

Thanks. But we don’t want new users to must-read old posts, we want old users to must-read new posts. And we don’t want to make them confirm these. Up to now, we have a mailing list and send important messages to that list. Now we move to discourse and still want to make sure, certain messages (= f…

[immagine] Pkoevesdi: Now we move to discourse and still want to make sure, certain messages (= first posts) are delivered to their E-Mail-Account. Then forcing the users to watch the category is not sufficient since they can also disable receiving emails in their preferences. my/preference…

quote=“Pkoevesdi, post:5, topic:313246, username:pkoevesdi”] we want old users to must-read new posts. And we don’t want to make them confirm these. Up to now, we have a mailing list and send important messages to that list. Now we move to discourse and still want to make sure, certain messages (=…

Ups, thanks for pointing this out. So, actually, there’s no way at all of sending a E-Mail to all users? They always have the upper hand in terms of getting Mails from discourse? That’s sad.

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