# Provide option to disable notifications when post moved, renamed, tagged
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [Mars 5, 2015, 3:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027 "2015-03-05T15:52:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [Mars 5, 2015, 3:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/1 "2015-03-05T15:52:56Z")
I have started getting a bunch of notifications about older topics I’ve been involved in on meta because @riking is graciously improving their titles, moving them to new categories, adding/removing tags etc. I really appreciate him doing this and do think it’s important for moderators to feel free to make improvements like this. It’s all part of the gardening involved in running great forums. But I don’t see why I should be notified. The same is true on my own discourse sites of course.
The feature that I’d like to request is a setting to enable/disable notifications when post is moved, renamed or tagged. This could be sitewide in admin, similar to the “Disables edit notifications by the system user when ‘download\_remote\_images\_to\_local’ is active” option, or on the user preferences for each user and on by default.
A related issue is that moving, renaming and adding tags indeed does bump up these old topics in topic listings, giving them prominence they don’t require.
Another approach would be to bring back the “minor edit” idea discussed last year, which allows you to tick a box to indicate that this change is so minor it doesn’t warrant notification. (and… the search for this reminds me I have talked about this before. :blush:)
> [@Minor editing should not bump the topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/minor-editing-should-not-bump-the-topic/18840/7):
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> How about a “this is a minor change” tickbox, [like in dokuwiki?](https://www.dokuwiki.org/edit_window)
> [@Any way to prevent notifications for post merges, moves?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-prevent-notifications-for-post-merges-moves/23796):
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> Our moderators have been complaining that extra notifications get sent out for very minor edits, merges and moves to posts. This is exacerbated by the way we started out using our forum which was to turn on email sending of all notifications for all of our 50+ staff using our forum. This means that, for example, when a post is moved to another topic an email is sent out to 50+ people because it is a new reply to that topic. We know they will start getting too much email and are starting to enco…
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### Author:  [@chapel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapel)
#### Post date: [Mars 5, 2015, 4:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/2 "2015-03-05T16:24:26Z")
I think this makes sense. An edit doesn’t mean it should jump to the top and notify anyone. Though those are two separate issues IMO.
My thought for edits is that it could be user preferences to get notified from an edit.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Mars 5, 2015, 9:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/3 "2015-03-05T21:47:35Z")
Define “bunch of”? How many specifically? I just find it hard to believe that you are getting so many of these that it is a serious, we-must-change-the-software problem.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [Mars 5, 2015, 9:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/4 "2015-03-05T21:59:24Z")
It’s not an earth shattering number… 1 today, 1 yesterday, 3 on feb 18, 1 on 17th, 1 on 16th. 1 on 12th.
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### Author:  [@meriksson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meriksson)
#### Post date: [Janvier 11, 2017, 9:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/5 "2017-01-11T09:10:16Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Define “bunch of”? How many specifically? I just find it hard to believe that you are getting so many of these that it is a serious, we-must-change-the-software problem.
Not a we-must-change-the-software problem but I am having this problem at the moment and found this thread looking for a solution. I can give an example of when you can have a good bunch of these cases, many more than mentioned above:
I recently imported 8,000+ topics from another platform into a fresh Discourse instance. A number of moderators are working hard to get things organized which includes doing a lot of edits (partly due to the old platform not having a similar concept of topic titles). So when users log in to our brand new site, sometimes almost of half of what they see right away is very old topics with no recent posts (especially if a moderator has just done a clean-up session).
Now, our users know that we are currently getting started on a new platform so they are not freaked out, some have noted that revisiting old threads has been interesting etc. But still, I would much prefer to have people focus on new topics to get things going after the migration.
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### Author:  [@Ralf\_Stockmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ralf_Stockmann)
#### Post date: [Mai 3, 2022, 1:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/6 "2022-05-03T13:49:04Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Un problème connexe est que le déplacement, le renommage et l’ajout de balises relancent effectivement ces anciens sujets dans les listes de sujets, leur donnant une importance dont ils n’ont pas besoin.
Cela fait un moment, mais j’aimerais appuyer cette demande de fonctionnalité.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [Mai 3, 2022, 1:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/7 "2022-05-03T13:55:25Z")
Une évolution depuis 2015 est que nous avons l’option de modification en bloc : lorsque vous l’utilisez pour déplacer, renommer ou étiqueter, ce que vous pouvez utiliser sur un seul sujet, vous ne déclenchez pas de notifications.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [Mai 18, 2023, 5:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/provide-option-to-disable-notifications-when-post-moved-renamed-tagged/26027/8 "2023-05-18T05:05:59Z")
Fermé pour concentrer la discussion sur [Bulk editing topic categories should not trigger thousands of email notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-editing-topic-categories-should-not-trigger-thousands-of-email-notifications/265269)