Issue Summary

When creating and publishing a page in Confluence with the "autowatch" setting disabled in personal settings, the user is unexpectedly added as a watcher. This issue is reproducible on Data Center. Although the "autowatch" flag is not selected, the behavior persists.

This is reproducible on Data Center: (yes) / (no)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to personal Confluence settings.
2. Ensure that the "automatic monitoring" flag is not selected.
3. Create a new page.
4. Publish the page.

Expected Results

When creating and publishing a page, the user should not be added as a watcher if the auto watch flag is not selected in their personal settings.

Actual Results

The user is automatically added as a watcher, despite the flag for autowatch being turned off.

The below exception is thrown in the xxxxxxx.log file:

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Workaround

Remove as a watcher after publishing a page.