# Questions About The Notification System

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 22, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-the-notification-system/204245 "2021-09-22T20:40:25Z")\
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“Dismiss” just marks them as read. DEpending on your settings and where you’re looking at it, it will have different behavior. In your personal messages inbox, that just means that the notification will be marked as read, not removed from your notifications. Note that this doesn’t mean I have read the _message._

If you’re in /new, it will dismiss them from view, because they’re not new anymore. They are still present. It’s just an unread notification action.

Example:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/1/d176908637d7f74a8b9cc2c9cb22eb71e106d4cc.png)

After dismissal:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/4/84bf22db35ddbed2893f5c161cb2cae64de4101b.png)

The actual message has not been marked as read. See here:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/f/2f536a84816f187761dd1ce66fb8f6476eb38ee9.png)

“Dismiss” from the profile menu _only_ affections notifications and their read state.

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