# Removing Welcome and Returning User notes from posts after a set time

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-welcome-and-returning-user-notes-from-posts-after-a-set-time/260934>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** post-notices\
**Created:** [April 7, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-welcome-and-returning-user-notes-from-posts-after-a-set-time/260934 "2023-04-07T12:21:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-welcome-and-returning-user-notes-from-posts-after-a-set-time/260934/1 "2023-04-07T12:21:50Z")

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They have caused confusion in a couple of cases where browsing the historic posts has given a misleading impression of what the post notice meant. For example:

[Discourse claims that someone didn't not post for certain years but posted in a different date](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-claims-that-someone-didnt-not-post-for-6-years-but-posted-in-september-2021/260929)

["Last post" message apparently wrong](https://meta.discourse.org/t/last-post-message-apparently-wrong/226658)

[Notice about user not seen for a long time above post they just wrote](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notice-about-user-not-seen-for-a-long-time-above-post-they-just-wrote/129683)

I think the older post notices can be hidden from individual sites using a little CSS:

> [@Post notices for first-time and returning users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-notices-for-first-time-and-returning-users/112078/1):
>
> ```plaintext
> .post-notice.old {
> display: none;
> }
> 
> ```

However, I think after a certain window of time these notices become relatively meaningless and serve only as extra noise, which I think applies to all sites. It would be useful if these notices could tidy themselves up after their usefulness had passed.

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