# Ok I give up. How do you ignore an entire subforum?

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**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [November 18, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-how-do-you-ignore-an-entire-subforum/1010381 "2024-11-18T02:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-how-do-you-ignore-an-entire-subforum/1010381/1 "2024-11-18T02:08:08Z")

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Seen some people saying they have been ignoring the Politics subforum, but I cannot find that option anywhere. There is an option to “edit categories navigation”, but clicking or unclicking each subforum doesn’t seem to do anything.

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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-how-do-you-ignore-an-entire-subforum/1010381/2 "2024-11-18T02:10:29Z")

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A couple of ways, but the easiest (for me) is to go to the Categories page, click on the category, and click on the Bell Icon in the upper right (different versions may look different) which is the same icon you’d use to mute or watch a specific thread.

Then Mute the whole category.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-how-do-you-ignore-an-entire-subforum/1010381/3 "2024-11-18T02:13:36Z")

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The notifications/mute button is right next to the “new thread” button in my UI.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-how-do-you-ignore-an-entire-subforum/1010381/4 "2024-11-18T02:15:05Z")

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OK got it guys thanks.