# Disabling badge notifications

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625 "2022-03-28T15:30:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![chadagreene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chadagreene/32/34924_2.png) [@chadagreene](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chadagreene)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/1 "2022-03-28T15:30:36Z")

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Hya folks, I’m a new member on the site. So far this seems like a great community, and I’m happy to be a part of it.

One question though–How do I disable the deluge of notifications for silly badges? I want to be notified when someone mentions me in a post, but I don’t benefit from periodic interruptions that let me know I’ve “Earned Basic” or “Earned First Like” or “Earned Read Guidelines” or “Earned First Mention.” Is there a way to turn this off?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/2 "2022-03-28T15:54:41Z")

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Welcome! I don’t think this is possible, unfortunately. It looks like this is an outstanding feature request for the discourse software we use:

> **[Deactivate notifications for link and share badges](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivate-notifications-for-link-and-share-badges/84893)**
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> Hey everybody, In the settings I already disabled notifications for likes. It seems that there is no such feature for share badges and link badges. I’m quite active in my community and sometimes I get a bunch of “Nice Share” badges, which aren’t...

> **[Collapse multiple badge notifications into one](https://meta.discourse.org/t/collapse-multiple-badge-notifications-into-one/182111)**
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> The meta category in a forum I am in was made open to everyone after initially only being accessible to TL1+. I frequent that category, meta discussion is interesting to me. My posts have gotten a good amount of likes, just enough to earn badges...

> **["First X" badges might be annoying](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-x-badges-might-be-annoying/206275)**
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> Cross posting from Do we really need the first badges? - #4 by felixc - meta - The Rust Programming Language Forum. I really enjoy using discourse, and at this point I think I’ve joined dozens of various discourses across the open source...

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/3 "2022-03-28T16:02:39Z")

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You might take solace in the fact that there probably aren’t many more to go - I just checked my own profile and it looks like I’ve got ~10 of these “first X” badges, including more arcane ones like first wiki edit or first flagged post, so hopefully this will peter out quite quickly.

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/4 "2022-03-28T16:14:10Z")

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Perhaps it’s only about email notifications, they can be switched off in the preferences.

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/5 "2022-04-28T16:35:02Z")

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Coming back to this particular ask, I think many of the new-user badges can be skipped with this setting in your [user preferences](https://discourse.julialang.org/my/preferences/interface) at the bottom:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/8/18a2397983865a40dbadc959d54f9c378069c0d8.png)

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**Author:** ![chadagreene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chadagreene/32/34924_2.png) [@chadagreene](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chadagreene)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/6 "2022-04-28T16:41:32Z")

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You would think so, but I unchecked that the day I signed up, and I’m still getting notifications for things like “Earned First Emoji”.

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**Author:** ![chadagreene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chadagreene/32/34924_2.png) [@chadagreene](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chadagreene)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/7 "2022-04-28T16:43:09Z")

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Wait, actually, upon reflection, does unchecking the box about _new user onboarding tips and badges_ turn notifications on?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-badge-notifications/78625/8 "2022-04-28T16:51:02Z")

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Yes, discourse likes to put its settings in negative way — you need to enable it to skip the tips and badges. That said, I’m not entirely sure which notifications this skips.