# Notifications stuck on non-existing users due to follow plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-stuck-on-non-existing-users-due-to-follow-plugin/126811>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [8월 26, 2019, 7:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-stuck-on-non-existing-users-due-to-follow-plugin/126811 "2019-08-26T07:29:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![bartv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bartv/32/130052_2.png) [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [8월 26, 2019, 7:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-stuck-on-non-existing-users-due-to-follow-plugin/126811/1 "2019-08-26T07:29:47Z")

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Hi,

My users are reporting an issue where they will keep getting the same notification for new posts. I’ve tracked it back to a non-existing user, and it seems Sidekiq keeps retrying these notifications which results in the these people getting the notification multiple times.

I have killed these retries in the past, but they’ll resurface after a while. Shouldn’t they just ‘give up’ and not retry?

 ![42](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/c/bce41bc31a6aa89bce1421ef9afd2dc7cfef8c55.png)

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