# Can't mute system messages

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mute-system-messages/35775 "2015-11-18T23:35:44Z")\
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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:** [November 18, 2015, 11:35pm 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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