# Send Promotion PMs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-promotion-pms/17248>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** automation\
**Created:** [July 5, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-promotion-pms/17248 "2014-07-05T20:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-promotion-pms/17248/10 "2014-07-07T05:39:14Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> Are we missing an opportunity here? Should be send a system generated PM to the user stating “Congratulations, you’ve been Promoted to X” with the body detailing things they are now able to do under that title?

Well, its complicated. There is a notification but there is “fork in the code”

At the moment I have a backfill job that does not notify and an inline job that does notify.

The job of the backfill it to fill out any holes in the badge system. Clearly we don’t want to notify **every** backfilled badge cause we would flood our most precious users with notifications.

So to work around this issue I will get the backfill to notify under certain conditions (badge would have been awarded in last week OR if its a silver and up badge.)

Sorry about the rough edges in the badge system, its a very complicated piece of work.

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