# System posts: - " LEFT THIS MESSAGE X MINS AGO"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [11 Dicembre 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807 "2017-12-11T03:59:39Z")\
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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:** [11 Dicembre 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/system-posts-left-this-message-x-mins-ago/75807/4 "2017-12-11T07:04:28Z")

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Oh I see, it’s unintentionally ambiguous. I can support that. @techAPJ let’s change it to

> {user} removed themselves from this message {time} minutes ago

“removed themselves” isn’t great, but I surely can’t say himself/herself and I can’t think of a shorter way to state it, though?

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