# Hide 'Welcome to the forums' for admin user. Make reading it mandatory **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [12. Mai 2015 um 00:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669 "2015-05-12T00:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\ **Post date:** [22. September 2015 um 18:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669/11 "2015-09-22T18:46:13Z")
I’ve just done some implementation work on this, but it’s not done and I don’t have the time to finish it right now. If someone else could polish this off, that would be nice. [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3801](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3801) The conditions for a PM to be “boring” are: - Messages from the site contact user are only boring to the sender until there’s a reply - Flag → notify moderators is always boring unless there’s a non-auto-inserted reply - Flag → notify user is only boring to the sender until there’s a reply The implementation needs to change - we can’t have this monster SQL firing off all the time. Proposed implementation: A column on the topic holding the ‘boringness’. 0 - not boring to anyone, 1 - boring to topic creator, 2 - boring to all participants. When a topic is created, the boringness is 0 unless specified otherwise in the PostCreator options. Whenever a reply is made to a topic, unless the reply is an auto-inserted reply from resolving a Notify Moderators flag, the boringness is set to 0. Messages from the site contact user, and Flag → Notify User are boring 1. Flag → Notify Moderators are boring 2. We can adapt the queries present in this WIP version of the patch to backfill the boringness for all topics in a migration. Then, the list queries would just be `.where("topics.boringness = 0 OR (topics.boringness = 1 AND topics.user_id = :user_id)")` and `.where("topics.boringness = 2 OR (topics.boringness = 1 AND topics.user_id <> :user_id)")`. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-welcome-to-the-forums-for-admin-user-make-reading-it-mandatory/28669)._