# Ability to disable or reduce User Suggestions
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476 "2019-05-23T03:51:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Mikitos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mikitos)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/1 "2019-05-23T03:51:41Z")
It’s becoming very annoying that the “This user is new to the community, let’s welcome..” “This user hasn’t posted in x months, let’s welcome them back” etc. is showing too many suggestions. No hard feelings, but although this is a nice and warm system, it’s just too frequent and appears almost everywhere I look. I have a browser plugin to get rid of them for good, but my phone’s browser/discourse hub doesn’t support extensions. It would be nice if we had the option to either completey disable these banners/suggestions or whatever you call them or reduce them to a certain percentage.
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/2 "2019-05-23T04:38:39Z")
You can use CSS to hide them.
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### Author:  [@Mikitos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mikitos)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/3 "2019-05-23T04:39:53Z")
I’m not a forum administrator and I would’ve already hidden it with CSS if I were one 😉
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### Author:  [@nexo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nexo)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/4 "2019-05-23T04:57:41Z")
That would’ve been nice to clarify, but all good. There’s no way to hide it unless you convince an admin to add CSS. Sorry mate
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/5 "2019-05-23T05:23:56Z")
> [@Mikitos](#):
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> it’s just too frequent and appears almost everywhere I look
Is it a new community? Or one that doesn’t encourage frequent participation?
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### Author:  [@Mikitos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mikitos)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 5:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/6 "2019-05-23T05:29:14Z")
Its a fairly old community, but new members tend to join almost everyday, hence the “This user is new, let us welcome them..” Also some users randomly come back from the dead, hence the “This user’s last post was x months ago..”
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-disable-or-reduce-user-suggestions/118476/7 "2019-05-23T11:51:46Z")
You’d need to be the site owner to modify the CSS globally for all users. You can install a browser plugin to disable the CSS just for you if you don’t want to see it.