# Can't mute system messages

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015年十一月18日 23:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775 "2015-11-18T23:35:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Drew\_Warwick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drew_warwick/32/80591_2.png) [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月18日 23:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775/1 "2015-11-18T23:35:44Z")

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The Discourse forum I’m using downloads local copies of embedded images, and it sends you a notification every time it does this. This doesn’t affect me and is unimportant and irrelevant to me, so I decided to mute the “system” user:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/a/5/1a56298d4b22b63c758cd648f3c36fd6b693fb26.png)  
After doing so though, I still get notifications from system and they create a notification bubble over my avatar:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/b/1/eb12cf072396d31a90dbd75927b75f1205c5fac3.png)  
So I guess this topic is kind of two things in one:

1. The system account cannot be muted
2. Downloading local copies of images shouldn’t notify the poster

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### Author: ![Yuun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/977dab/32.png) [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月19日 00:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775/2 "2015-11-19T00:19:42Z")

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> [@Drew\_Warwick](#):
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> 1. Downloading local copies of images shouldn’t notify the poster

For this bit, the setting you’re looking for is:

`disable edit notifications: Disables edit notifications by the system user when 'download_remote_images_to_local' is active.`

It’s in ‘Other’ in admin/site\_settings.

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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: [2015年十一月19日 01:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775/3 "2015-11-19T01:05:43Z")

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You can’t mute system messages, that is by design. You also cannot mute admins, moderators = staff.

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### Author: ![Drew\_Warwick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drew_warwick/32/80591_2.png) [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)
#### Post date: [2015年十一月19日 02:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775/4 "2015-11-19T02:55:09Z")

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Alright, thanks Yuun. I’ll ask the site administrators to turn on that setting.

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [2023年四月3日 02:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775/5 "2023-04-03T02:34:35Z")

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抱歉挖坟，但我刚发现（至少在我的网站上）静音设置允许用户在字段中输入员工，但系统会覆盖通知。我能够将版主和我自己（管理员）添加到我的测试用户帐户的“静音用户”字段。正如预期的那样，“忽略”字段不允许我选择员工姓名，但“静音”字段允许我选择并保存（我回去验证了它已保存）。测试帐户仍然像员工没有被静音一样接收通知和消息。