Official warning pm notification feature

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The discussion centers on the visual design of official warning notifications in the moderation system. Architect initially reported that official warnings were triggering a green envelope notification instead of the expected red one, questioning if this was a bug. sam clarified that this behavior is by design to prevent confusion with private message indicators, noting that the topic has been moved to the Feature category. Architect accepted this explanation, suggesting that a distinct notification style for warnings could still be a valuable feature. Teafh argued that recent changes have made official warnings too similar to regular private messages, rendering them ineffective. Architect agreed that this similarity is problematic and asked if other changes contributed to the issue, while noting the system’s utility in documenting warning counts. Teafh clarified that the specific visual distinctions previously present—the red envelope color and the yellowish background color—have been removed, which they believe diminishes the effectiveness of the warning system.

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Good day,

Am starting to run tests on the moderation system with a dummy test user account, first check of the official warning system gave user a green envelope notification instead of red. Not sure if this may be a bug or not, here is screenshot:

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This is by design, moving this off to feature.

It would be confusing for some PMs to trigger red vs green.

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Oh alright, had thought this used to display as red but I agree that could be confusing.

Could be a good feature for notification to be different if user is being issued a warning.

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The current changes have made official warnings and regular private messages very similar, which I believe has rendered them ineffective.

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That is definitely a problem, are there other changes besides just the alert envelope color that have contributed to that?

Seems there are a lot of options about how to use the warning feature. Technically the main purpose may be just be to able to document the number of official warnings a member has been issued, which can be helpful instead of just issuing unofficial warnings which aren’t automatically registered by the system.

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  1. The envelope color in notifications was red.
  2. The background color was yellowish.

Now both are gone :smiling_face_with_tear:.

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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: OP of warnings not highlighted with Staff Color