# Notification levels - understanding and communicating category notification levels

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-levels-understanding-and-communicating-category-notification-levels/204073
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** notifications
**Created:** [September 21, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-levels-understanding-and-communicating-category-notification-levels/204073 "2021-09-21T03:30:12Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2022, 4:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-levels-understanding-and-communicating-category-notification-levels/204073/5 "2022-02-13T04:00:54Z")

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> [@Questions About The Notification System](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-the-notification-system/204245/4):
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> Broadly speaking, discourse _only_ sends you a notification when _someone is speaking **directly to you** _. That is:
> 
> - they replied to your post
> - they quoted your post
> - they mentioned your `@username`
> - they linked to your post
> 
> As far as arbitrarily being notified about specific topics or specific categories, use the 🔔 bell icon on the topic or category and set it as you prefer.

Since I just wrote this reply, I’ll quote it again here. Still applies..

(Emails are only sent if none of your web browsers have touched the website in the last 10 minutes.)

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