# Setting to disable avatar education message

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544 "2015-09-21T21:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544/1 "2015-09-21T21:35:21Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Optimizing letter avatar rendering](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimizing-letter-avatar-rendering/33082/45):

> [@sam](#):
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> Sounds like we need a site setting to disable that notification, do a new feature request on it.

We need a Site Setting to disable education message for change avatar when we already have it customized through the new default avatar system.

It looks the check is made here:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/9ce66038647bc4ff63167fe9c74857a01acc0875/lib/composer_messages_finder.rb#L50>

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544/2 "2015-09-22T05:19:13Z")

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Looks like a simple `return if SiteSettings.disable_avatar_education_message` will do 😃

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544/3 "2015-12-14T17:19:27Z")

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Done via:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e65a7370ef94f926386a9552063fd159ad310d41](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e65a7370ef94f926386a9552063fd159ad310d41)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-to-disable-avatar-education-message/33544/4 "2015-12-15T00:02:41Z")

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