# Staff notices on specific user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-notices-on-specific-user/115977
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-notices-on-specific-user/115977 "2019-04-25T16:46:01Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-notices-on-specific-user/115977/3 "2019-04-25T16:57:13Z")

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It’s brand new so we don’t yet have any documentation, but the purpose is to make a public notice to the community. The example you’re showing, warning the community about using obscenities, is a good example of how it could be used.

If you want to make a private note about a _user_ that only Staff members can see, you’d want to use the [Staff Notes plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-notes-plugin/41026). Then whenever that person posts staff members can see a clickable icon next to their name

 ![42%20PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/e/ee246703964d3990b5f57075543a45b3b279d6c5.png)

and then on click they can see the details

 ![34%20PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/7/3731950cd46339c4a1a5967d87edb2273f8427ca.png)

We will be making some changes to clarify the difference between a Staff Notice (visible publicly) and a Staff/User Note (applies to a user, and only Staff can see it). For example, we’re going to start calling Staff Notes “User Notes” as seen in the post admin menu here:

 ![09%20PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/c/8c5e93b694be6e8f9d0999bb17828546014fa500.png)

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