The issue of not being able to mute system messages is being discussed. Drew_Warwick initially reported that even after muting the “system” user, they still received notifications. Yuun pointed out that the setting “disable edit notifications” can be enabled to prevent notifications from the system user when downloading local copies of images. However, codinghorror clarified that system messages and staff (admins and moderators) cannot be muted by design. Lilly also discovered that although staff members can be added to the mute field, the system overrides it, and notifications are still received.
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:
After doing so though, I still get notifications from system and they create a notification bubble over my avatar:
So I guess this topic is kind of two things in one:
The system account cannot be muted
Downloading local copies of images shouldn’t notify the poster
sorry for the necro, but i just discovered (on my site anyways) that the mute setting lets a user enter staff members into the field but the system overrides the notifications. i was able to add both a moderator and myself the admin to my test user account’s mute users field. the ignore field didn’t let me pick staff names, as expected but the mute field did and let me save it (i went back and verified that it saved them). the test account still received notifications and messages as if the staff weren’t muted.
