diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 177c038..dada2a7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ These are keyed per piece of media, not per user. If multiple users requested th
 
 - Skipped if Radarr reports `isAvailable: false` (unreleased) or Sonarr reports `status: "upcoming"`.
 - **Auto-resolves** when the file appears.
-- Manual close cooldown: **3 days**.
+- Manual close: no cooldown — reopens on the next refresh if the file still isn't there.
 
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@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ These are keyed per piece of media, not per user. If multiple users requested th
 - Only fires for series with `status: "ended"` in Sonarr. Continuing shows are excluded because missing episodes may not have aired yet.
 - Completion is calculated as `episodeFileCount / totalEpisodeCount` (not Sonarr's `percentOfEpisodes`, which measures against monitored episodes only).
 - **Auto-resolves** when all episodes are on disk.
-- Manual close cooldown: **3 days**.
+- Manual close: no cooldown — reopens on the next refresh if episodes are still missing.
 
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@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ These are keyed per piece of media, not per user. If multiple users requested th
 - One alert per request item, not per user.
 - Skipped if the content is unreleased.
 - **Auto-resolves** when the request is approved or declined.
-- Manual close cooldown: **3 days**.
+- Manual close: no cooldown — reopens on the next refresh if still pending.
 
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@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Rather than checking lifetime play counts, this looks at recency: if a user's la
 |---|---|---|
 | `GHOST_RECENT_REQUESTS` | `5` | Number of recent approved requests to evaluate. Also the minimum required before the alert can fire. |
 
-- Manual close cooldown: **14 days**.
+- Manual close cooldown: **7 days**.
 
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@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Rather than checking lifetime play counts, this looks at recency: if a user's la
 | `MIN_REQUESTS_WATCHRATE` | `10` | Minimum requests before the ratio is considered meaningful. |
 | `LOW_WATCH_RATE` | `0.2` | Ratio of `plays / requests` below which an alert fires (default: under 20%). |
 
-- Manual close cooldown: **14 days**.
+- Manual close cooldown: **7 days**.
 
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@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Rather than checking lifetime play counts, this looks at recency: if a user's la
 
 This usually means emails don't align between the two services. Check that users have the same email address in both Overseerr and Tautulli (or that display names match as a fallback).
 
-- Manual close cooldown: **1 day**.
+- Manual close: no cooldown.
 
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@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ clears             closed                          │
  immediately        re-open
 ```
 
-- **Auto-resolved** alerts have no cooldown and will reopen immediately if the condition returns.
-- **Manually closed** alerts suppress re-opening for a category-specific number of days (see cooldowns above).
-- Reopening a manually closed alert via the UI clears the cooldown immediately.
+- **Auto-resolved** alerts reopen immediately if the condition returns.
+- **Content alerts** (unfulfilled, pending) have no cooldown on manual close — they reopen on the next refresh if the condition still exists. Closing is an acknowledgment, not a suppression.
+- **User-behavior alerts** (ghost, watchrate) suppress re-opening for 7 days after a manual close.
+- Reopening a manually closed alert via the UI always clears the cooldown immediately.
diff --git a/src/lib/db.ts b/src/lib/db.ts
index 730ee78..5a30722 100644
--- a/src/lib/db.ts
+++ b/src/lib/db.ts
@@ -16,19 +16,19 @@ import {
 const DATA_DIR = join(process.cwd(), "data");
 const DB_PATH = join(DATA_DIR, "alerts.json");
 
-// Cooldown days applied on MANUAL close — suppresses re-opening for this long.
-// Auto-resolved alerts have no cooldown and can reopen immediately if the
-// condition returns.
+// Cooldown days applied on MANUAL close.
+// 0 = no cooldown: content alerts reopen immediately on the next refresh if
+//     the condition still exists. Closing is an acknowledgment, not a suppression.
+// >0 = user-behavior alerts: suppress re-opening for this many days so a single
+//      acknowledgment isn't immediately undone by the next refresh.
 const COOLDOWN: Record<string, number> = {
-  unfulfilled: 3,
-  pending: 3,
-  ghost: 14,
-  watchrate: 14,
-  declined: 14,
-  "tautulli-no-matches": 1,
-  "dark-library": 30,
+  unfulfilled: 0,
+  pending: 0,
+  ghost: 7,
+  watchrate: 7,
+  "tautulli-no-matches": 0,
 };
-const DEFAULT_COOLDOWN = 7;
+const DEFAULT_COOLDOWN = 0;
 
 interface Store {
   nextId: number;
@@ -205,13 +205,17 @@ export function closeAlert(id: number): Alert | null {
   if (!alert) return null;
 
   const cooldownDays = COOLDOWN[alert.category] ?? DEFAULT_COOLDOWN;
-  const suppressUntil = new Date();
-  suppressUntil.setDate(suppressUntil.getDate() + cooldownDays);
+  let suppressedUntil: string | null = null;
+  if (cooldownDays > 0) {
+    const d = new Date();
+    d.setDate(d.getDate() + cooldownDays);
+    suppressedUntil = d.toISOString();
+  }
 
   alert.status = "closed";
   alert.closeReason = "manual";
   alert.closedAt = new Date().toISOString();
-  alert.suppressedUntil = suppressUntil.toISOString();
+  alert.suppressedUntil = suppressedUntil;
   save(store);
   return toAlert(alert);
 }