# Don't show my own messages in activity summary emails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [23 באפריל, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020 "2020-04-23T16:08:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Hjulle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hjulle)
#### Post date: [23 באפריל, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020/1 "2020-04-23T16:08:35Z")
I joined a community with almost no activity, sent a message to it, and got no reactions for a week. Then I got a discourse summary email which just contains my own message and nothing more. It feels very redundant and creates false hope.
Also, since I am a new user, it shouldn’t be included because of the default setting to not “Include content from new users in summary emails”.
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Not quite sure if it should be seen as a bug or a feature request, so I posted it here to be safe.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [23 באפריל, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020/2 "2020-04-23T19:23:39Z")
> [@Hjulle](#):
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> Also, since I am a new user, it shouldn’t be included because of the default setting to not “Include content from new users in summary emails”.
I believe “new” means “trust level”. You are an admin, ne? If you add folks you know and give them higher trust levels, they wouldn’t be “new”. 🕶
“False hope” is a bummer, but as your community picks up you’ll have other, “popular” content sent to you. This is a temporary issue for you, I believe. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Hjulle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hjulle)
#### Post date: [23 באפריל, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020/3 "2020-04-23T19:42:23Z")
No, I’m not the admin. I am just an ordinary user. I don’t think I even have level 1 at that community (and I certainly didn’t when I posted).
“Popular content” is also a very silly description of a topic that has zero likes and a whopping 8 views, most of which probably from myself. If somethings receives zero attention it shouldn’t be sent as a “look at all this new exciting content, please come back”, especially not when it’s just your own comment and nothing else.
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [23 באפריל, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020/4 "2020-04-23T20:33:22Z")
The option to exclude “new users” is meant to keep the signal-to-noise ratio down/deal with spam/deal with uninformed users. Presumably you are trustworthy enough to see your own content. 🙂
> [@Hjulle](#):
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> I am just an ordinary user. I don’t think I even have level 1 at that community (and I certainly didn’t when I posted).
The email you shared doesn’t seem like a good idea to send out, but I don’t think digests are sent out like that very often; it may just be during the start-up period for a community, where there isn’t a lot of content.
I’m not sure options are driven by communities not being active. 🤔
At any rate, this might also be something you bring up with the admin of that instance; they may have their content permissions set up so digests don’t make sense.
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### Author:  [@Hjulle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hjulle)
#### Post date: [24 באפריל, 2020, 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-show-my-own-messages-in-activity-summary-emails/149020/5 "2020-04-24T08:02:36Z")
> [@maiki](#):
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> but I don’t think digests are sent out like that very often; it may just be during the start-up period for a community, where there isn’t a lot of content.
It’s a fairly old community, it’s just for a narrow field and doesn’t see very much activity. But sure, I guess it’s not a common enough problem to be worth dealing with.