# Full explanation of the site contact group setting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [28 maart 2019 om 22:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871 "2019-03-28T22:38:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Dannii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dannii)
#### Post date: [28 maart 2019 om 22:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871/1 "2019-03-28T22:38:29Z")
The site contact group setting was added in 2.3.0.beta5, but there’s no real explanation about it that I could see. So just checking if there’s a major category of message that we haven’t seen yet that it will send. So far we’ve seen:
- “Thanks for spending time with us” When a user gets promoted to TL1 (maybe higher TLs too?)
- User of the month
- Spam notifications
- Posts hidden by community flags
Are there any other kinds of messages?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2019 om 01:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871/2 "2019-03-29T01:17:41Z")
This topic is confusing. Are you asking “what is this setting” or “tell me every single message that will be sent to a user”?
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### Author:  [@Dannii](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dannii)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2019 om 01:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871/3 "2019-03-29T01:55:11Z")
A bit of both. The setting label says “A valid group name to be invited to all automated messages.” Which isn’t strictly true. It doesn’t get the discobot messages for example.
So yeah, I’m wondering if there’s a list of every category of message that we’ll be invited to. For our forum it doesn’t feel very useful yet, but maybe there’s a type of message that we would like to see that just hasn’t come up yet.
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### Author:  [@Krischan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Krischan)
#### Post date: [18 april 2019 om 08:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871/4 "2019-04-18T08:48:15Z")
Sorry, couldn’t find an explanation: What is this setting?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [19 april 2019 om 00:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-explanation-of-the-site-contact-group-setting/112871/5 "2019-04-19T00:41:11Z")
It includes a group in automated system messages that are sent to users in certain situations. By default these messages are sent by the @system user unless `site contact username` is set.
Some examples of these messages here:
> [@Dannii](#):
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> - “Thanks for spending time with us” When a user gets promoted to TL1
> - User of the month
> - Spam notifications
> - Posts hidden by community flags