### Follow topics you start or participate in

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1. Under **Topic notifications**, select the desired option from the
   **Automatically follow topics** dropdown.

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### Follow topics where you are mentioned

You can automatically follow topics where you are personally
[mentioned](/help/mention-a-user-or-group). If this setting is enabled:

- You will automatically follow topics where you are personally mentioned, but
  group mentions and wildcard mentions (**@all**, **@topic**, etc.) will not
  affect topic status.
- You will automatically follow topics in [muted streams](/help/mute-a-stream)
  when you are mentioned.
- Mentions will *not* cause you to automatically follow topics you have
  explicitly [muted](/help/mute-a-topic).

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{settings_tab|notifications}

1. Under **Topic notifications**, toggle **Automatically follow topics where I'm
   mentioned**.

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