# Disabling "solved" notifications

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [August 27, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069 "2026-08-27T17:01:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069/1 "2026-08-27T17:01:53Z")

</div>

Could we maybe revisit the idea of letting anyone click the “solved” button on help topics?

Someone has been reading through an ancient topic today ([Chess.jl could use some love](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/chess-jl-could-use-some-love/130782)), and seems to be having fun clicking on the “solved” button for various posts as they read through it, and it keeps sending me notifications each time.

I doubt this is good for anyone. Maybe we can limit the “solved” button to only be usable by the original poster or mods?

I know I’ve accidentally clicked on this stupid button a few times before while reading, and I sometimes worry I’ve done it without noticing, and sent out a few hundred notifications. Maybe there’s a way to make there be a popup that says “Are you sure you want to mark this post as the solution?”

* * *

I found that there’s a way to disable this type of notification from the settings panel, but IMO that’s also not ideal, because it can be good to know if a topic I’ve engaged in gets solved (if there is an actual solution, not just some person who has fun clicking the button)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [August 27, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069/2 "2026-08-27T17:27:07Z")

</div>

You do currently need to be a [trust level 3 “regular”](https://discourse.julialang.org/g/trust_level_3) or the OP in order to tick that box… so that’s only 50-ish folks. Looking at the config options, there’s a new one! Here are the current settings as of this post:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/e/3e233ecd22fb471739232a675e31ac1b6c6af4ee.png)

I’ll immediately turn on “show who marked solved,” which doesn’t solve your problem (the noise/notifications), but it does solve a related question I’ve often asked. Even as a mod/admin this has been ridiculously opaque to me (I have this [old meta topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-see-who-is-marking-solved-and-on-what/63981) ❤ed)

It would be nice if the notification would “debounce” a quick accidental click; I definitely accidentally click it myself, too.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [August 27, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069/3 "2026-08-27T17:40:25Z")

</div>

Actually, I do think these notifications are debounced; I was doing some very rough testing and was unable to generate notifications with a short-duration (sub-15 second) solved mark.

~~There are three classes of notification, I think:~~ _ **EDIT: THIS IS WILDLY WRONG** _. I _wish_ it would behave like this:

- I think the topic OP gets notified
- The poster whose post was marked solved gets notified
- People watching or tracking the thread get notified if [this notifications pref](https://discourse.julialang.org/my/preferences/notifications) is enabled (and it is by default)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/8/8/88d6166acae10e07c9fbce8f8e901920db997a39.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069/4 "2026-08-27T17:51:03Z")

</div>

I’m pretty sure the last one started to happen only a few months ago and every time I’ve found the notification uninteresting. I’m much in favor of turning that preference off.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [August 27, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/disabling-solved-notifications/139069/5 "2026-08-27T17:55:32Z")

</div>

You’re right! It is new:

> **[Notifying members when a Tracked or Watched topic is solved](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifying-members-when-a-tracked-or-watched-topic-is-solved/399821)**
>
> When a member of your community is Tracking or Watching a topic in a support category (using the Discourse Solved plugin), they will receive a notification when that topic is marked as solved. This makes it easier for members to get answers to...

The comments there make it seem like that setting affects _all_ solved notifications… and I think that may indeed be the case.