# Hide Staff Notices from non-Staff
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 24, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961 "2024-09-24T18:21:45Z")
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### Author:  [@benjamin\_bracken](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benjamin_bracken)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/1 "2024-09-24T18:21:45Z")
We have been using [Staff Notices feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-notices-staff-notices/122434) to add notes for Staff, but I’ve just found out that these are completely visible to non-Staff and that this is an intentional aspect of the feature.
Is there a way to customize our install via CSS, a plugin, or another way to hide all of these from non-Staff?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/2 "2024-09-24T18:27:53Z")
Hi @benjamin_bracken 👋 welcome to Dicsourse Meta.
I am sorry for the confusion with that feature, but you are correct, that is the intended behaviour - to notify all users of a staff message above a post.
It sounds like you have been using Staff Notices instead of Whispers. perhaps try using that feature because I think it does what you were trying to achieve. you need can make staff the `whisper allowed group` in your `admin - all site settings`.
> [@Creating a whisper post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-whisper-post/44247):
>
> bookmark This guide explains how to create a whisper post in Discourse, including how to enable the feature and use it effectively. person_raising_hand Required user level: Users in whisper-allowed groups Whispers are a feature in Discourse that allow for private discussion within a topic or personal message. This guide will walk you through enabling and using whispers. Enabling whispers Before whispers can be used, an administrator needs to enable them: Go to your site settings Find…
If you really want to hide staff notices, you can use some CSS, but be aware that it can be overridden in the browser dev console.
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### Author:  [@benjamin\_bracken](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benjamin_bracken)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/3 "2024-09-24T18:30:22Z")
We also use Whispers 🙂 I’ll poke around to figure out a way to hide these Notices, but if anyone has any CSS-y suggestions, I’m all ears!
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/4 "2024-09-24T18:32:54Z")
the CSS will be something like:
```scss
.post-notice {
display: none;
}
```
you may have to add the [CSS for groups component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/css-classes-for-current-users-groups/226068) and add a group conditional to the code too but staff should work without it.
but it will hide other post notices, including the welcome new user ones.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/5 "2024-09-24T18:32:59Z")
For what do you use the staff notes? Maybe there is another feature you can use instead. Hiding with CSS isn’t that safe. It’s quite easy for a user to undo these changes.
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### Author:  [@benjamin\_bracken](https://meta.discourse.org/u/benjamin_bracken)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/6 "2024-09-24T18:40:32Z")
We used Staff notes for tagging a topic with a link to a ticket in our ticketing system, which we don’t want visible to non-staff.
It appears that something like the following will work for us (thank you @Lilly):
```plaintext
.post-notice.custom {
display: none;
}
.staff .post-notice.custom {
display: initial;
}
```
Agree that this isn’t particularly safe, just need to do something stopgap until we transition away from this usage.
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/7 "2024-10-01T19:56:06Z")
The choice to label these “Staff notice” _does_ make it pretty ambiguous: it means “Notice from Staff” but could easily be misunderstood as “Notice to Staff”. An extra word in there could head off such confusion.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-notices-from-non-staff/327961/8 "2024-10-31T19:56:43Z")
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