# Alow admins to hide welcome messages in inbox
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Julho 20, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216 "2015-07-20T16:52:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/1 "2015-07-20T16:52:47Z")
Hi, sometimes I have private conversations, symbolised by the little envelope symbol. I often need to find these again for reference, but I can’t seem to find where they “live” - I am an admin which might be confusing the issue.
I have looked in as many places I can think, but the only way I seem to find them is by finding a post from the person in question and clicking from their avatar…
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/2 "2015-07-20T17:00:16Z")
Have you tried your Profile Messages buttons?
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/3 "2015-07-20T17:01:48Z")
where are those? I cant see them
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/4 "2015-07-20T17:04:27Z")
You don’t see them near the bottom of the left column?
> **[@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/users/gingerling/activity)**
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> Community Manager at phpList
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/5 "2015-07-20T17:10:08Z")
These?
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/6 "2015-07-20T17:12:24Z")
On my site at [discuss.phplist.org](http://discuss.phplist.org) I have loads of non message stuff in there, including loads of “welcome to discourse” things which are not messages at all.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/7 "2015-07-20T17:13:03Z")
Yes, those are the ones.
If you have a lot of them you might have better luck using Search with the “messages” checkbox selected
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/8 "2015-07-20T17:14:31Z")
It’s odd though, I have only a few messages, like 5 or six, but it says hundereds and all those “welcome to phpList Discuss” things are not messages, I don’t know what they are…
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/9 "2015-07-20T17:18:56Z")
If you are the Admin, Discourse is sending Welcome messages to new members on your behalf.
Take a look at one.
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/10 "2015-07-20T17:22:18Z")
Ah right, sorry, I thought that was just the intro page thing that there is, didn’t realise it was a message. Anyway to filter those out? Bit annoying really! 😃
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/11 "2015-07-20T17:25:23Z")
AFAIK the Search doesn’t filter out but filters in, if you get my meaning.
That is you can’t exclude “welcome” but you can include “member\_name” or a search term.
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### Author:  [@gingerling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gingerling)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/12 "2015-07-20T17:27:22Z")
Well lets make a feature request for admins to have a way to not see these, perhaps a specific inbox or a check box filter etc. It’s unnecessary clutter.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/13 "2015-07-20T17:58:13Z")
That’s on the wishlist for future features!
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/14 "2015-07-20T17:58:41Z")
No need to alter the history of your topic. Trying to rewrite history just makes a mess 😛 Your initial query was solved. The natural next step would be to start a new topic or find an existing one, like this one:
> [@User who sends the automatic Welcome Message has overflowing PM box](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-who-sends-the-automatic-welcome-message-has-overflowing-pm-box/28315/7):
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> I think we should probably change it so Welcome goes from system. If anyone replies to welcome all moderators are automatically added to the conversation. Its a huge edge case, but when it hits you (like it does hit @codinghorror here) it makes your Messages kind of useless.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Julho 20, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/alow-admins-to-hide-welcome-messages-in-inbox/31216/15 "2015-07-20T19:37:27Z")