# Discourse constantly generating invisible welcome topics on its own **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [2015年八月17日 01:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-constantly-generating-invisible-welcome-topics-on-its-own/32192 "2015-08-17T01:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![themightychris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/themightychris/32/115183_2.png) [@themightychris](https://meta.discourse.org/u/themightychris)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月17日 01:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-constantly-generating-invisible-welcome-topics-on-its-own/32192/1 "2015-08-17T01:08:34Z")
I’m using the discourse-webhooks plugin to push alerts when new topics are created to other mediums and it’s caused me to notice that my discourse forum is generating a new welcome topic that isn’t discoverable via the UI every 1-4 days. They don’t even come up in search but a topic\_created event is firing for them and they’re reachable via their permalink only if I’m logged in: - [http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/196](http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/196) - [http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/197](http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/197) - [http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/198](http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/198) - [http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/199](http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/199) - [http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/200](http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/200) - [http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/201](http://forum.codeforphilly.org/t/welcome-to-code-for-philly-public-forum/201) They all look like this: ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/meta/original/3X/5/f/5f7d8af2c5084369836182e970b4194201616558.png) What’s the deal with these? Can I disable them? Is there a reliable way for me to identify and ignore them? I’m running 1.4.0beta7 ---
**Author:** ![themightychris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/themightychris/32/115183_2.png) [@themightychris](https://meta.discourse.org/u/themightychris)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月17日 01:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-constantly-generating-invisible-welcome-topics-on-its-own/32192/2 "2015-08-17T01:16:49Z")
Shortly after I posted this I finally realized they are private topics being generated for each new user that joins the forum. Looking for a topic attribute I can use to discriminate them, I’ll come back and share if I find one ---
**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月17日 01:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-constantly-generating-invisible-welcome-topics-on-its-own/32192/3 "2015-08-17T01:26:56Z")
`archetype == 'private_message'` ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年八月17日 01:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-constantly-generating-invisible-welcome-topics-on-its-own/32192/4 "2015-08-17T01:29:19Z")
If you don’t want that turn off the welcome PM for new users via the site settings. There is a Boolean for it. ---
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [2022年七月22日 06:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-constantly-generating-invisible-welcome-topics-on-its-own/32192/6 "2022-07-22T06:02:34Z")