When a post is moved to a new topic, the followers (those who watched the topic) of the original topic becomes automatically followers of the new topic (the moved reply).
while the notification level for the new topic should be set to Normal for users other than the original poster.
Continuing the discussion from I get notifications for topics I haven't chosen
This is by design, @gerhard recently worked on this. The users expressed the will to watch the original topic so we assume they want to watch the new topic.
aha, thanks for the declaration.
I can argue that most of the times, they don’t. because the new topic is something that doesn’t fit in the old one, otherwise it won’t get moved into a new topic.
I can share our user experience on this:
as a user during the past week, I was getting some notifications I didn’t want to! this happened for some of users as well, described in this topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-get-notifications-for-topics-i-havent-chosen/129187.
our users complained us about it as we have violated their privacy by sending them notifications they didn’t chose to received!
I think privacy violation here is a bit extreme of a position to take here.
Going to leave this to @codinghorror to decide, I am on a fence. May take him a while to reply here as he is out.
Assuming:
User (A,B,C,D) are watching topic X
User B posts
User C posts
User D posts
Mod splits off B,C to topic Y
Option 1 (currently happening)
A,B,C,D are now watching topic Y
Option 2
B,C are now watching topic Y (A,D are not)
Option 3
(something else) B,C watching topic Y, A,D tracking?
Jeff your call as to what you want here.
I agree that this is not a privacy violation, no matter how loud they state it. But I liked that post because of this logic:
So only the posters who are already discussing something different should watch the new topic:
I corrected the option by changing B to D
maybe I’m using a wrong word/context. their criticism was of course for us, and not to discourse. what they have said to us was this:
we feel that you are not respecting our interests, and you’ve forced us to follow some topics from specific users*!
{*we have 2-3 specific users with extra activity in our forum, who sometimes start extra discussion in a topic and we need to move their replies into a new discussion!}
It seems there is only two options on the table, new way or old way, but in both ways the system decides.
I know there are holes in the following ideas, but it is just a compass bearing and not a detailed map.
Perhaps instead of the system deciding a new user option is added that allows a user to decide when a post is moved if they follow those post automatically (I think of this as the passive option).
Another option is that they are prompted when they visit either topic again and choose which of the post they want to continue to be notified. (I think of this as the active option).
I think that subscribing to the new post all users that have been subscribed to the original post is the correct solution, as it is now.
The users have not control of when an admin or mod can split a thread.
If they are interested in the theme of the post that is split, and they are not subscribed to it, they miss the opportunity to read what other people has to say, or even read that post if it is spitted before they read it, so they cannot know if it is of interest for them or not.
If they are subscribed to it and they are not interested, they always have te opportunity of unsubscribing from it.
I agree with Remah, any user whose post got moved to the new topic should watch, everyone else should be left untouched.
@techAPJ can you make this change?
cc @techAPJ
问题在于，在这种情况下没有绝对好或坏的方案。当用户正在“关注”或“追踪”某个特定话题，而帖子被移动到另一个话题时，有些用户希望收到新话题变更的通知，而有些则不希望。
我们决定撤销该更改并简化代码库，因为该调整为了支持这一边缘情况而引入了大量复杂性。因此，当帖子被移动时，用户当前的通知级别将延续到新话题。
不同意。
当一条回复被移动到新主题时，意味着它被认为对之前的讨论是离题的，因此最好将其作为一个新主题。用户为什么要对离题的讨论感兴趣呢？
明白了，不幸的是，您这里需要一个自定义插件来实现此功能。该逻辑过于复杂，难以维护这种边缘情况，且该更改引发了其他严重错误。
软件无法判断您拆分内容的原因是：
有人可能会说，如果无人关心，您本应直接将其转为私信或删除。
没错！正因如此，如果一条回复被拆分且未被删除，那就说明它有价值，其他人可能会关心——如果他们选择的话。
明白了 
也许我正是因为那条回复才选择关注该主题的。
我宁愿收到多余的提醒，也不愿错过任何一条。而且，我随时可以选择取消关注新主题。