Can't mute system messages

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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.

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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:


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:

  1. The system account cannot be muted
  2. Downloading local copies of images shouldn’t notify the poster
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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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You can’t mute system messages, that is by design. You also cannot mute admins, moderators = staff.

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

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Lamento revivir este tema, pero acabo de descubrir (al menos en mi sitio) que la configuración de silenciar permite a un usuario ingresar miembros del personal en el campo, pero el sistema anula las notificaciones. Pude agregar tanto a un moderador como a mí, el administrador, al campo de usuarios silenciados de mi cuenta de usuario de prueba. El campo de ignorar no me permitió seleccionar nombres del personal, como se esperaba, pero el campo de silenciar sí lo hizo y me permitió guardarlo (volví y verifiqué que los guardó). La cuenta de prueba aún recibió notificaciones y mensajes como si el personal no estuviera silenciado.

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