# Whispers on community - users get a notification
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispers-on-community-users-get-a-notification/44372
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 17, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispers-on-community-users-get-a-notification/44372 "2016-05-17T07:52:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Tia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tia)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispers-on-community-users-get-a-notification/44372/1 "2016-05-17T07:52:40Z")
After commenting with a whisper to a staff member on our community, I got this email from the original poster:
> **Hidden reply?**
> Hey,
> The forum say that my help post from yesterday has two replies (one from you)
> Did you reply to this? I can’t see what you posted!
The whisper also appears in the comment count along with the whisper’s avatar.
Is there a way to disable this? This kinda goes against the whole purpose of whispering.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispers-on-community-users-get-a-notification/44372/2 "2016-05-17T09:00:11Z")
Unfortunately no, that requires a massive re-architecting of how we track last read post. There are other topics on this if you search.
It is a bad idea to have the last reply in a public topic be a whisper.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispers-on-community-users-get-a-notification/44372/3 "2016-05-17T09:00:49Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispers-on-community-users-get-a-notification/44372/4 "2016-12-05T08:07:26Z")
This is now [fixed in latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-term-whisper-posts-on-topics/45057/10) courtesy of @sam