# Alerts that react to the user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/alerts-that-react-to-the-user/211235>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 6, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alerts-that-react-to-the-user/211235 "2021-12-06T14:40:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![pgr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pgr/32/156783_2.png) [@pgr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pgr)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alerts-that-react-to-the-user/211235/1 "2021-12-06T14:40:49Z")

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I’m trying to customize these yellow alerts:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/d/ad480fdfea65091255bcfe6234795a684a0e1413.png)

Searching these forums, I couldn’t find much… maybe I don’t know how to search, is there a name for these? Yellow alerts? Instructional modals? Big Brother? Obscure-my-preview Esc X bot? 🙂

If the answer is that they’re not customizable, I’m going right in to feature request mode, I see enormous community-training possibilities here, even more than Topic Templates.

The really interesting thing to have would be a model that allows customizing both

- **detection** based on a number of conditions
  - is this a reply or a new topic being started
  - how old is the previous reply
  - is this a new/recent user?
  - free text regexp match (“you mentioned X, please check this helpful link first”)

- **action** like selecting a nice appropriate text for the yellow alert

If it can’t be a plugin, at least a Ruby-code-level customization possibility would be nice.

I see that Discourse itself is already using this effectively in several places, I’d love to be able to use those super-powers for Community-specific things.

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