# Watching group PMs by default

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-group-pms-by-default/55285>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [06.Январь.2017 16:44:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-group-pms-by-default/55285 "2017-01-06T16:44:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [20.Апрель.2017 19:49:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-group-pms-by-default/55285/20 "2017-04-20T19:49:16Z")

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Per:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a9eee1b71cf298210ee9a258e9f17ae1a8a9af7](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7a9eee1b71cf298210ee9a258e9f17ae1a8a9af7)

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/5/d51e4143c98c873ec4ab912c29fcdb4e684d0a8e.png)

All groups except the “moderators” group have default tracking state of watched, in admin groups you can customize this to whatever.

Note, the default applies when people are added to the group, to apply retroactively simplest thing to do is add/remove user from group, or visit user profile page and change it there.

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