jidanni proposes a centralized “Excitement Opt-Out Panel” to let users easily disable onboarding tips, badge notifications, trust level promotion messages, and other automated notifications in one place — rather than hunting through scattered settings. They suggest adding a bonus option to clear existing notification residue, since opting out doesn’t remove previously generated notifications. jidanni highlights that current systems don’t allow users to turn off badge award messages like “Member” or “First Emoji” — even though these can clutter notifications. The issue affects multiple Discourse sites, not just one. The goal is to give users full control over what notifications they receive — both future and past — to reduce noise and improve user experience.
Feature Idea!: Have a handy one-stop menu users can click:
Skip new user onboarding tips and badges
Never Notify when liked, or choose level […]
Disable Trust Promotion Advancement messages
instead of scattering them all around. Or, OK, in addition to scattering
them around.
Are there any more I missed?
Also, have an additional bonus checkbox: clean off any current residue of this stuff from my notifications.
You see the problem is even if one opts-out, that won’t clean them out of the notifications for the previous period.
So one’s notifications could still be crowded with this stuff with no way to get them off. Currently all we can do is just ask that they don’t give us any more. But there’s no way to get rid of ones already there.
No way to turn off:
Member
This badge is granted when you reach trust level 2. Thanks for participating over a period of weeks to truly join our community. You can now send invitations from your user page or individual topics, create group personal messages, and have more likes per day.
First Emoji
This badge is granted the first time you add an Emoji to your post thumbsup. Emoji let you convey emotion in your posts, from happiness smiley to sadness anguished to anger angry and everything in between sunglasses. Just type a : (colon) or press the Emoji toolbar button in the editor to select from hundreds of choices
Note I am not just talking about one site.