# Disable Avatar education message when \`allow\_uploaded\_avatars\` is disabled
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 14, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679 "2015-12-14T08:52:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@fbender](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fbender)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679/1 "2015-12-14T08:52:22Z")
On my install, I disabled `allow_uploaded_avatars` since I built an SSO solution for an existing CMS installation (using Contao) and plan to use the already-available avatars from the website (not available yet). Thus users will never be able to upload profile pictures _through Discourse_.
However, the Avatar education message appeared recently which confused users. It should not appear when `allow_uploaded_avatars` is disabled, and while we’re at it, this should also be true when `sso_overrides_avatar` is set.
Related to: [Setting to disable avatar education message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679/2 "2015-12-14T09:05:40Z")
Good point, if avatars are overridden then we should skip this education panel. @techapj can you add that to your list?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679/3 "2015-12-14T14:04:38Z")
Possible duplicate of:
> [@Setting to disable avatar education message](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Optimizing letter avatar rendering](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimizing-letter-avatar-rendering/33082/45): We need a Site Setting to disable education message for change avatar when we already have it customized through the new default avatar system. It looks the check is made here:
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679/4 "2015-12-14T17:19:09Z")
Fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e65a7370ef94f926386a9552063fd159ad310d41](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e65a7370ef94f926386a9552063fd159ad310d41)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-avatar-education-message-when-allow-uploaded-avatars-is-disabled/36679/5 "2015-12-14T17:19:20Z")