# Official warning pm notification feature
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448 "2025-11-03T12:45:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Architect](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Architect)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/1 "2025-11-03T12:45:18Z")
Good day,
Am starting to run tests on the moderation system with a dummy test user account, first check of the official warning system gave user a green envelope notification instead of red. Not sure if this may be a bug or not, here is screenshot:
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/2 "2025-11-06T00:51:47Z")
This is by design, moving this off to feature.
It would be confusing for some PMs to trigger red vs green.
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### Author:  [@Architect](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Architect)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/3 "2025-11-06T15:57:56Z")
Oh alright, had thought this used to display as red but I agree that could be confusing.
Could be a good feature for notification to be different if user is being issued a warning.
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### Author:  [@Teafh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Teafh)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/4 "2025-11-18T12:19:00Z")
The current changes have made official warnings and regular private messages very similar, which I believe has rendered them ineffective.
> [@OP of warnings not highlighted with Staff Color](https://meta.discourse.org/t/op-of-warnings-not-highlighted-with-staff-color/380993/3):
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> I feel like this may have been an intentional change @hugh would probably know.
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### Author:  [@Architect](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Architect)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/5 "2025-11-20T10:56:53Z")
> [@Teafh](#):
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> rendered them ineffective
That is definitely a problem, are there other changes besides just the alert envelope color that have contributed to that?
Seems there are a lot of options about how to use the warning feature. Technically the main purpose may be just be to able to document the number of official warnings a member has been issued, which can be helpful instead of just issuing unofficial warnings which aren’t automatically registered by the system.
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### Author:  [@Teafh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Teafh)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/6 "2025-11-20T11:13:38Z")
1. The envelope color in notifications was red.
2. The background color was yellowish.
Now both are gone 🥲.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-warning-pm-notification-feature/387448/8 "2026-06-30T14:11:17Z")
3 posts were merged into an existing topic: [OP of warnings not highlighted with Staff Color](https://meta.discourse.org/t/op-of-warnings-not-highlighted-with-staff-color/380993/4)