Thanks @sam, This is genius and really useful feature. I’ve changed all of my internal Watched Words, added ?silent=true to the ends of the links. Works great! Also great for AI generated topics etc… I think this feature request has been completed with this solution. Thanks again! 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/27301ae5c7737ef2b41a9d1036f743867c442a0f