# Admin emails pointing to the dashboard

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-emails-pointing-to-the-dashboard/133989>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-emails-pointing-to-the-dashboard/133989 "2019-11-21T01:30:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-emails-pointing-to-the-dashboard/133989/14 "2020-01-17T16:59:32Z")

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> [@nedbat](#):
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> You are basically saying, “As an expert, I cannot reproduce your beginner confusion.”

Incorrect. I am saying

> As the sole admin and staff on two Discourse self hosted sites, I have _never_ in the last five years seen a single ‘cry wolf’ notification about necessary admin actions on the dashboard, that when clicked or tapped upon, showed nothing at all on said dashboard.

> [@nedbat](#):
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> Is “You have the maximum number of staff accounts” considered advice or recommendation? Is that what this message is telling me to go see?

That sounds plausible to me, and that is the specific example I was looking for! @neil do we nag about this? Seems to me the nag should be “just in time”, that is, when you smash the “make this person a staff member” button?

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