# 'watching first post' on a tag doesn't work on existing topic?

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 2, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-first-post-on-a-tag-doesnt-work-on-existing-topic/328974 "2024-10-02T07:56:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ToddZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/toddz/32/328350_2.png) [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-first-post-on-a-tag-doesnt-work-on-existing-topic/328974/13 "2024-10-03T13:50:39Z")

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O.

M.

G.

I’m going to go crawl under a rock.

I had forgotten those settings existed. I imagine when I disabled them I was thinking only of notifications like _“an admin has added a tag or changed the category of your topic”_ – not actions like Watching or WFP notifications.

I think there may still be some inconsistencies, as Watching a category seemed to override `disable category edit modifications`, while WFP did not. As penance, I will test this more thoroughly and follow up with a couple of other people I pinged on the subject.

(Also, @sam did kind of back up my conclusion 😅)

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> Watch first post only notifies on the absolute first post in the topic.

But thank you @JammyDodger for rescuing me from more hours of puttering with rails scripts. My next step was to sell my couch & pay @pfaffman to help.

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