# Notify me of likes received starting from N likes, or switch off entirely (personal user setting)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [3월 10, 2016, 10:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848 "2016-03-10T10:44:17Z")
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2016, 10:44오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848/1 "2016-03-10T10:44:17Z")
These “received like” notifications are sometimes tiring.
Currently, I only get a notification upon receiving a first like. Achieving a single like for a message is not really interesting. It is often given by the same person with which you’re talking in the topic, and you just ping-pong likes to each other, sometimes without thinking too much whether you should click the heart icon really or not.
It might be interesting to try out a personal setting that would allow me to switch off “received like” notifications entirely, or show them to me starting from N likes. I’d try N = 2 or 3 to improve my experience.
Getting a notification for a single like is pretty engaging for novices, but when you live with the forum for a year or two, you may lose your interest in seeing those “first like” notifications. It means, well, not so much anymore. That’s why the proposed way to do it is via personal settings rather than a site-wide setting.
… and if you’re a really great write and often receive multiple likes, more then 10, then you’d probably switch this notification at all and just get notified upon receiving a “good topic” or a “good post” badge (10x likes).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2016, 10:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848/2 "2016-03-10T10:48:03Z")
You realize you already have **4** options… I am not going to add any more here any time soon.
You can do N=3 with a custom badge if you must.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2016, 10:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848/3 "2016-03-10T10:48:31Z")
Related thread:
> [@Notify on every like should be the default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-on-every-like-should-be-the-default/40485):
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> I recently, and by recently mean yesterday… added a site setting for notifying more aggressively on likes: Notify when liked: Always First time a post is liked and daily First time a post is liked With this change I deployed a new global default of Notify when liked: first time a post is liked and daily, this means that from now on, people will get notified on repeat likes if there is a day gap or more between subsequent likes on a post. This protects users from a “swarm…
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### Author:  [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2016, 10:52오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848/4 "2016-03-10T10:52:07Z")
Thank you all for the screenshot and the link, I didn’t know about this feature.
N=3 badge sounds as an easy workaround though.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2016, 10:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848/5 "2016-03-10T10:56:20Z")
There is a gap in the badge, in that it does not display the title of the topic, I do want to get that sorted though at some point.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 10, 2016, 11:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-me-of-likes-received-starting-from-n-likes-or-switch-off-entirely-personal-user-setting/40848/6 "2016-03-10T11:33:21Z")