# Not seeing replies to report PMs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844 "2018-11-12T14:01:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/1 "2018-11-12T14:01:08Z")
Flagged a post ~1 day ago here on meta. Never saw a response in my inbox, so just dug through my sent items and can see that Hawk did in fact reply 19 hours ago. That reply still doesn’t show in inbox and there’s no accompanying notification.
Going to dig through inbox/sent to see if I’ve missed anything else, but there’s obviously some form of disconnect between the two at the moment.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/2 "2018-11-12T14:26:54Z")
@jomaxro can you repro?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/4 "2018-11-12T14:35:07Z")
I _think_ I’ve seen this before. Going to PM you @Stephen to grab a few more details.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/5 "2018-11-12T18:00:48Z")
I can confirm that no notification is generated in the following scenario:
1. User flags a post.
2. User selects the “Something Else” flag type and enters a message.
3. Admin uses the “Delete Post and Agree with flag” option.
I can also confirm that a notification is generated for the “ignore” option.
@zogstrip, we have a lot of flag options these days. Do you need me to test each option for handling a flag, or will this be enough to start looking through the code?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/6 "2018-11-12T18:02:43Z")
> [@jomaxro](#):
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> @zogstrip, we have a lot of flag options these days. Do you need me to test each option for handling a flag, or will this be enough to start looking through the code?
It’s fine. Thanks for the repro 👍
@maja can you have a look?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/8 "2018-11-12T18:03:46Z")
Are the auto-generated replies to reports treated differently to a PM? Not seeing the notification is one thing, but my larger concern is that my inbox doesn’t show any evidence of the automated response when the report was acted on. Had I not thought to check my sent items I wouldn’t have seen a reply at all.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/9 "2018-11-12T18:06:25Z")
> [@Stephen](#):
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> Are the auto-generated replies to reports treated differently to a PM?
Sort of 🤷♂️. Something is strange here, as the “we agree and removed the post” auto-reply does not generate a notification or appear in the inbox, but the “thanks for letting us know” (ignore) auto-reply does generate a notification and appear in the inbox.
Maja will track it down 😃
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/10 "2018-11-12T18:11:17Z")
Cool, as long as my report makes sense now.
The notification would be nice, but realising I wasn’t seeing the reply was my primary concern. The ticket about the spammer using wiki edits ties into another post I put out a while ago, if we can’t see which wiki posts a spammer has edited we can’t necessarily easily revert their damage.
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### Author:  [@maja](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maja)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/11 "2018-11-26T00:04:34Z")
Fixed per
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/993d8f346e3030fd1ad148ce55fe468371215e03](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/993d8f346e3030fd1ad148ce55fe468371215e03)
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### Author:  [@maja](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maja)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/12 "2018-11-26T00:04:51Z")
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/13 "2018-11-26T00:10:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/14 "2018-11-26T00:14:57Z")
If this fix is live on Meta then it’s only partial, or doesn’t resolve responses to reports which occurred prior.
Here’s an example from two weeks ago when I filed the issue, I flagged a post and can see the flag in my sent items, I can also see that @Hawk responded to that sent item from /u/stephen/messages/sent:
But the reply never arrived in my inbox, that topic doesn’t exist in /u/stephen/messages at all.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/15 "2018-11-26T00:51:39Z")
The fix is for _notifications_ so it would only affect _new notifications_ not ones from weeks ago.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/16 "2018-11-26T00:52:43Z")
Sure, I get that, it’s just not the bug I reported 😃
Surely I should see the reply too? As-is it suggests that in certain cases a message can receive a reply, without the reply being visible in messages (unless you look at sent).
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/17 "2019-03-22T22:28:13Z")
This issue is back.
Yesterday I reported a post and I can now see from my Sent items that @HAWK responded to it, but the replied-to topic doesn’t appear in my inbox and there’s no associated notification.
I had to go to my /messages/sent to see the topic at all before I knew that Hawk had responded.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/18 "2019-03-22T22:34:59Z")
What is your notification state set to in that topic?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/19 "2019-03-22T22:36:19Z")
It’s set to ‘watching’, the topic was created by my report, so I’m assuming watching is the default.
As I said above this issue has two parts for me, I would expect it to appear in my inbox when @hawk responded and in turn also be notified.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/20 "2019-03-23T14:01:26Z")
This just happened again, I reported something 30 minutes ago, noticed it had been acted upon but had received no notification.
Checking my inbox there’s no reply, but in my sent items I see the report with a reply from @jomaxro , still unread:
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/21 "2019-03-30T01:22:13Z")
Happening still here on meta as of ~20 minutes ago. Nothing in inbox, but sent shows the report and the response.
No notification.
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### Author:  [@Chaboi\_3000](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chaboi_3000)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/not-seeing-replies-to-report-pms/101844/22 "2019-03-30T04:42:49Z")
I can confirm this too. Four days ago, I flagged a post and got it resolved, but never got a notification.
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