# Likes from muted users aren't visible
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-from-muted-users-arent-visible/165437
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 26, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-from-muted-users-arent-visible/165437 "2020-09-26T04:38:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-from-muted-users-arent-visible/165437/1 "2020-09-26T04:38:33Z")
I’m putting this in #Contribute > Bug because it feels wrong to me, but if this is working as intended feel free to move to #Contribute > Feature for further discussion.
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One of my posts was liked, but I didn’t get a notification. I suspected this was because a user I have muted was the one who liked the post, which I confirmed by viewing the post when logged out. Since they were muted, not getting a notification is, of course, expected.
What’s unexpected is that I could not see who liked my post when viewing the post itself. Instead of seeing their profile picture, I only saw an unclickable black circle, as shown here:
The settings page mentions nothing about suppressing this information. It only says:
> Suppress all notifications and PMs from these users
I have this user muted (not ignored) only because they regularly link one of my topics and I was tired of getting those notifications. I have no reason to block anything else from this user.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-from-muted-users-arent-visible/165437/2 "2020-09-26T04:49:35Z")
This was done because some people who need to mute other users have seeing their avatar as a problem. Occasionally, the muted user can be expected to use the avatar maliciously, and do the damage either in a way non-obvious to forum moderators or before the forum moderators can see it.
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/likes-from-muted-users-arent-visible/165437/3 "2020-09-26T12:41:19Z")
It doesn’t suppress their profile picture in any other way though. This user posted right after me and I can see their profile picture on their post.
Maybe hiding the picture from likes was done before “ignored users” was a thing, but it feels more appropriate there instead of with “muted users” since this has nothing to do with notifications.