# Possibility of turning off notifications of Awards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825 "2020-06-24T19:35:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/1 "2020-06-24T19:35:12Z")
I have a two-fold question: 1. Can we selectively turn off which notifications we get? I am flooded with Badge notifications, and it’s cluttering my screen. 2. How can I “mass dismiss” all of the notifications I’ve already gotten? It’s cluttering my screen and harshing my calm. Tripler Mellow. For now. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/2 "2020-06-24T19:40:16Z")
So your inbox is blowing up? flees ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/3 "2020-06-24T19:45:14Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > 1. Can we selectively turn off which notifications we get? I am flooded with Badge notifications, and it’s cluttering my screen. Not really. > [@](#): > > 1. How can I “mass dismiss” all of the notifications I’ve already gotten? It’s cluttering my screen and harshing my calm. There should be a Dismiss button both on your notification dropdown (click your avatar in the upper right corner) and at Notifications \>\> All. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/4 "2020-06-24T19:47:27Z")
You’re getting flood with badges right now just because you’re “new” and suddenly hitting all these milestones. I’ve stopped getting them after a couple days. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/5 "2020-06-24T19:55:19Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > There should be a Dismiss button both on your notification dropdown (click your avatar in the upper right corner) and at Notifications \>\> All. There _was_ a button there, but there was no “Notifications \>\> All.” When I clicked the single, check-marked “Dismiss” button, nothing happened and that “Dismiss” button went away. Tripler Let me log out for 10 min, and try it again. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/6 "2020-06-24T20:05:31Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > There _was_ a button there, but there was no “Notifications \>\> All.” To get to Notifications \>\> All, click on your avatar, then click on the bell in the dropdown. That takes you to Notifications, and it should default to All. > [@](#): > > When I clicked the single, check-marked “Dismiss” button, nothing happened and that “Dismiss” button went away. Exactly how it behaves will depend on your device, your browser, and your theme (skin). If the button went away, the notifications were dismissed. They weren’t removed though. Far as I know, they’re eternal. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/7 "2020-06-24T20:05:49Z")
**I apologize!** I misread the earlier post, but have found the “Dismiss All” at Profile \> Notifications. Unfortunately, that button is greyed-out, and unclickable. Is it a once-a-period kinda thing? ETA: Ninja’d! So there’s no way to dismiss and _remove_ them from my ‘top-right Avatar dropdown’? Tripler Ready to Dismiss All. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/8 "2020-06-24T20:22:59Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > They weren’t removed though. Far as I know, they’re eternal. Apparently all the “dismiss” button does is mark them as read. Is there any way at all to fix that? I seem to have a choice between never having any notifications at all, in any form, about replies to posts I made or threads I posted to, and eventually having thousands and thousands of them all piled up and unremovable. If that’s really a required setting, that’s absurd. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/9 "2020-06-24T20:30:13Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Apparently all the “dismiss” button does is mark them as read. > > Is there any way at all to fix that? I seem to have a choice between never having any notifications at all, in any form, about replies to posts I made or threads I posted to, and eventually having thousands and thousands of them all piled up and unremovable. If that’s really a required setting, that’s absurd.  There’s nothing to fix. That’s how it’s supposed to work. You will have billions and billions of them. But really, how much time do you plan on spending in Notifications \>\> All? ETA: However, you can go to Notifications and change the filter to Unread to hide all of your read or dismissed notifications. Forgot about that. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/10 "2020-06-24T20:41:13Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > There’s nothing to fix. That’s how it’s supposed to work. > > You will have billions and billions of them. But really, how much time do you plan on spending in Notifications \>\> All? Zilch, apparently, since apparently I can’t even turn them off. I’ve set it to disable them, and I’m still getting them, complete with distracting noise. I suppose if I don’t want to be distracted I’ll have to mute the computer or log out every time I want to do something else; which would be a royal nuisance. Could you at least put in an option to shut up the noise? But I don’t have to go specifically into Notifications to see the things. Any time I click on the icon for my profile, whatever reason I had for doing that, there they are, taking up space. And there’s no email notification setting for ‘notify me once a day’; either I turn that off entirely, or they send me an email whenever I haven’t been here for all of ten minutes. Do they expect us to live on the site? – I suspect that they do. I think I’m going to have to turn that off too, and settle for watching threads, or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/11 "2020-06-24T20:50:34Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I’ve set it to disable them, and I’m still getting them, complete with distracting noise. Ok, I think we’re talking about two different kinds of notifications. There are Discourse notifications and Live Notifications. Live Notifications give the annoying noise. If you’ve turned them off in Preferences \>\> Notifications, you may also have to turn them off in your browser. For the list of Discourse notifications when you click your avatar, that’s just how it’s supposed to work. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/12 "2020-06-24T21:11:55Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Live Notifications give the annoying noise. If you’ve turned them off in Preferences \>\> Notifications, you may also have to turn them off in your browser. – OK, poked around in the browser for a while, found that and turned them off. Maybe that’ll work. But I don’t see why it should have been necessary; if I turned them off here, shouldn’t Discourse just quit sending them? There’s no way to get email notifications once daily, or to make the other notifications silent (short of muting the computer)? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/13 "2020-06-24T21:13:29Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > – OK, poked around in the browser for a while, found that and turned them off. Maybe that’ll work. But I don’t see why it should have been necessary; if I turned them off here, shouldn’t Discourse just quit sending them? Hope that helps. And I agree it shouldn’t be necessary. > [@](#): > > There’s no way to get email notifications once daily, or to make the other notifications silent (short of muting the computer)? I don’t know much about the mail system. Once it started crashing the servers at my other D-boards, I turned it off and never looked at it again. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/14 "2020-06-24T21:30:23Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > I agree it shouldn’t be necessary. Just got a notification of that post, despite notifications being turned off both in my profile and in the browser. At least it only showed up as a number next to my avatar icon; the sound does appear to be gone. I surely hope the emails are gone too; will find out eventually. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/15 "2020-06-24T21:31:57Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > At least it only showed up as a number next to my avatar icon; the sound does appear to be gone. I surely hope the emails are gone too; will find out eventually. Yes, that’s a Discourse notification. Those can’t be turned off. Discourse is notifications based. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/16 "2020-06-24T21:45:19Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Those can’t be turned off Ah, yes. Discourse knows better than any of the users how each of us wants to use the boards. Bah, grumble. I’ll learn to ignore a lot of this stuff, eventually. ---
**Author:** ![samsaffron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/samsaffron/32/3066_2.png) [@samsaffron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samsaffron)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/17 "2020-06-24T21:59:39Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I am flooded with Badge notifications Sorry about this, it is temporary, when you start off you get quite a few badge notifications that are there to teach you about the software. Once this initial flood is over in a couple of days, getting a badge notification will be extremely rare. > [@Tripler](#): > > How can I “mass dismiss” all of the notifications I’ve already gotten? It’s cluttering my screen and harshing my calm. I saw this was covered but the best you can do is reduce the amount of notifications (watch less stuff / if you must you can as the system to stop notifying you whey you are @mentioned or quoted. > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Bah, grumble. I’ll learn to ignore a lot of this stuff, eventually. As in you do not want a blue notification for this post that directly quoted you? Can you explain what specific notification you are trying to get rid of? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/18 "2020-06-24T22:01:41Z")
> [@samsaffron](#): > > Can you explain what specific notification you are trying to get rid of? All of the old ones. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/19 "2020-06-24T22:06:15Z")
Hi, @samsaffron, are you a real person? Will you be a regular Doper? Do you know Cecil Adams? Do you really live down under? ---
**Author:** ![samsaffron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/samsaffron/32/3066_2.png) [@samsaffron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samsaffron)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825/20 "2020-06-24T22:10:02Z")
Yes, Happy to assist where I can answering Discourse related stuff (within reason) I like a lot of the conversations so I will be lurking here, No, Yes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibility-of-turning-off-notifications-of-awards/912825.md?page=2)