Allow to mute bots

[waterplea]

I would like to be able to mute bots. Some bots are helpful but their automatic comments add noise to my notifications/emails and there seems to be no way to configure that.

[trevor-scheer]

+1. I love using Slack notifications from the GitHub app as a todo list. As we use more bots, these notifications are only getting noisier.

[Godsplanworks]

How does slack notifications works

[aqeelat]

+1 for this as well

[aqeelat]

+1. Notification fatigue/noise is making me miss the important emails.

[bryevdv]

Specifically, it would be great if users could opt to have PR comments from specified bots/users hidden/minimized by default. The core team I am a part of have diverging opinions about how much automation they want to see by default. If it were possible to avoid email notifications the hidden comments, that would be even better.

[olly-writes-code]

Huge +1 on this! This makes GH notifications waaay less effective / useful.

[drewboswell]

My Github notifications are largely spam now due to not being able to filter for humans. The ability to filter by bot or even silencing specific users would make notifications useful again.

[Godsplanworks]

+1 for this as well

[jfaz1]

I'm working on a bot right now and I find it odd that this isn't a feature. A simple silent flag on the API for commenting would do the trick (for my use-case). Maybe a setting on the app installation page for install-wide silence could work, though it'd be great if app developers could choose which comments would issue notifications, instead of muting the whole application.

[singulasar]

Would be amazing, every PR generates multiple automatic mails now that should be avoidable without muting the entire repo

[bbt-amboss]

I turned off notifications because it is not possible to turn off notifications by bots

[Yuki2718]

Why limit to bots, please consider adding mute user. Currently we have to block user if don't want to get notification from the user, but this does too many than mute and in my case is not an option.

[sumanthakkala]

+1 These are getting more annoying.

[koesper]

filtering out the messages that don't actually add anything to the conversation, besides a "+1" or "me too!" would also be a very useful addition.

[SarcevicAntonio]

Allow me to mute bots please 🙏

[meza]

My kingdom for this. Apps/Bots doing their thing automatically are great. Them flooding our inboxes and obscuring actually important messages aren't.

Please let us mute notifications from dependabot/renovate/actions especially when it's BAU. Renovate opening a PR, actions commenting with reports and then it all automatically getting merged doesn't need 3-4 emails per occasion per dependency. And then when there's multiple outstanding PRs and a new update comes in, all the outstanding PRs send another 3-4 emails because the github actions just add reports as comments. Please help us sift through the noise! 🙏🏻

[Sensanaty]

Could we get an update from the GH team on this one? It's been a few years since the thread has been started, and it's a huge QoL change that would make a world of difference in terms of email/notification spam

[itaymndy]

I really hope this gets worked on soon, we have some repos with upwards of 4 bots commenting in PRs.
And working on multiple PRs, this bot comment notification in slack gets too noisy.

[fcFn]

Uh oh, how is this not a thing?

[jacolack]

I can't believe no one has worked on this in 3 years. Is this a rare issue? Slack notifications are borderline unusable with the bot spam.

[aqeelat]

I think what makes this difficult is that GitHub doesn’t have a special type of account for bots.

let’s brainstorm ideas on how to solve this issue. Maybe then they can be convinced to start working on the solution.

[Yuki2718]

Then no need to do that automatically. I know which is a bot and which not, so allow us to mute whatever account we selected instead of blocking.

[rodrigo-arias]

Deploy bots, Dependabot, and similar tools flood my organization's dashboard with notifications, causing most updates from my team to get lost. Being able to mute bots would make the dashboard make sense again.