# Notification levels - understanding and communicating category notification levels

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**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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Ah. Yes, you’re right, I need to separate out whether emails are turned on or not. Thanks for that.

I’m not sure about the default descriptions though. As someone that’s been (very part-time) running our install for a few years, it’s taken me a long time to get my head around these various distinctions, and from there be able to make recommendations for users, and default settings for categories.  
We got a lot of feedback from users initially, before we changed the standard guidance descriptions, that it was making no sense to them, and they were reluctant to make adjustments; that’s why we’ve been trying to do some interpretive work (with varying degrees of success and accuracy).

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