# Long term whisper posts on topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-term-whisper-posts-on-topics/45057>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [31.Май.2016 22:33:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-term-whisper-posts-on-topics/45057 "2016-05-31T22:33:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Post date:** [01.Июнь.2016 00:49:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-term-whisper-posts-on-topics/45057/5 "2016-06-01T00:49:44Z")

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I was aiming for checking there wasn’t bug in the topic / post reading logic.

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However this might actually be considered a bug…

I consider “dismiss” a “dangerous” operation from a users reading point of view…

In so far as you can “dismiss” topics you haven’t seen yet.

**Topics or posts have been created in the between loading the list of unread topics and confirming the dismiss can be incorrectly dismissed.**

Yes, possibly a small window - but with users leaving browser windows open for days now - it might be bigger than you first think.

In the same way as a delete operation takes the exact topic / post ID’s and passes those to the server “dismiss” should so the same…  
… only dismissing those topics that were in the view when the user selected “dismiss”.

Currently it just passes:  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/e/0ec3934f2194bf7c670f4820ca200929b4821be6.png)

So no ID’s - meaning - everything is dismissed regardless of if the user was aware of it or not.

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