# Notification levels - understanding and communicating category notification levels

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-levels-understanding-and-communicating-category-notification-levels/204073>\
**Category:** Product 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:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-levels-understanding-and-communicating-category-notification-levels/204073/7 "2023-06-26T05:01:41Z")

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You need to decouple notifications from emails. A user may be watching a category but have email notifications turned off.

The descriptions here are sound:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/e/b/0ebd08460c5151d98e0de361e3b9a7270c416176.png)

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