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Muting a user in Notification should mark existing notifications as read
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Description

This morning I have 94 notifications coming from one single user.
I've added this user to the muted users list in my preferences (Notifications > Muted users)

Expectation
The notifications from this user are marked as read, hidden or deleted, so that I don't need to handle them

Reality
I have to mark these notifications as read.

Event Timeline

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Thanks @Trizek for this report. Just to make sure I understand the situation, I have a few questions.

Did you add the user to the muted users list after the notifications were sent?

If so, the solution you'd like to see is that adding the person to the muted list would automatically make all previous notifications from that user as read or deleted or otherwise removed from your notifications. Is that correct?

Did you add the user to the muted users list after the notifications were sent?

Yes.

If so, the solution you'd like to see is that adding the person to the muted list would automatically make all previous notifications from that user as read or deleted or otherwise removed from your notifications. Is that correct?

Yes.
A warning should be added to preferences, though, to avoid unexpected surprises.

Excellent. Thanks for clarifying. This sounds like a reasonable expectation to me but I'll leave it to @Niharika to unpack all the use cases.