Stop SonarQube blocking PR merge when encounter blocker or critical issues

EDIT: my response below is a misconception from not reading G. Ann Cambpell’s response above thoroughly. Ignore this and read that.

The Quality Profile lets me activate or deactivate rules, but I can’t see a way to have it still do analysis to find issues, but not post a failed commit check.

Is that in Quality Gates instead? If I set my Quality Gates to F across the board, will it stop posting failed commit checks.

This is mainly a serious problem, because our PR analysis isn’t honoring the base branch we set in sonar-scanner: