# Don't show info messages as posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 1, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861 "2015-03-01T21:04:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Stefan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/1 "2015-03-01T21:04:33Z")
I may be the only one, but for me posts like “this topic is now closed […]” or “this topic is now pinned […]” are a bit useless. Are there any plans to make this optional at some point? I think that the icons (pinned, locked, etc) are sufficient.
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### Author:  [@rodrigofarcas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rodrigofarcas)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/2 "2015-03-01T21:20:46Z")
I’ve requested the same
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/3 "2015-03-01T21:23:55Z")
> [@Stefan](#):
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> are a bit useless
I don’t know, for me seeing a “Now Closed” often let’s me know when something is [Solved]
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/4 "2015-03-01T21:37:00Z")
Duplicate of this post:
> [@How to stop Discourse posting moderation actions as posts?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-stop-discourse-posting-moderation-actions-as-posts/25693):
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> Is there a way to de-activate the feature that makes a posts explaining things like “This post is now closed, pinned, etc” ? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Stefan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/5 "2015-03-01T21:41:02Z")
that’s why I think they should be optional. For you those are useful, for me they are irrelevant.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/6 "2015-03-01T21:55:53Z")
> [@DeanMarkTaylor](#):
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> Duplicate of this post:
IMHO extremely similar but not exactly duplicate.
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Currently they are getting the “yellow” from
```css
.moderator .topic-body {
background-color: #FFFFCA;
```
But as moderator is applied to every Moderator and topic-body is applied to every Post I’m not sure that could be used as a way to hide only the “Now” posts.
And I’m not sure it’s a good idea to hide them as sometimes “yellow” posts contain information that is important for members to see.
@sam might it be possible to assign classes like “close-topic”, “pin-topic” etc. ?
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### Author:  [@Stefan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/7 "2015-03-01T22:01:38Z")
the CSS approach is a good idea. If we have a special class for this kind of posts, we can hide them if those are not needed.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-info-messages-as-posts/25861/8 "2025-12-04T11:35:44Z")