Why is the default for most forums to send you email notifications?

TH55 · Dec 24, 2011, 02:02 PM

This is insanely irritating. Your inbox is flooded with useless notifications by default until you root through the settings page to turn them off

r.j.s · Dec 24, 2011, 02:04 PM

That is not the default for this forum.

verwon · Dec 24, 2011, 02:05 PM

The post on icafe wasn't enough and needed copied here?

TH55 · Dec 24, 2011, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by verwon

The post on icafe wasn't enough and needed copied here?

Haha ya I realized it was actually default here and therefore more relevant on this forum

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Quote:

Originally Posted by r.j.s

That is not the default for this forum.

False

verwon · Dec 24, 2011, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TH55

Haha ya I realized it was actually default here and therefore more relevant on this forum

No, actually it's the default on iCafe, not here!

r.j.s · Dec 24, 2011, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TH55

Haha ya I realized it was actually default here and therefore more relevant on this forum

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False

Actually, it is not the default here.

TH55 · Dec 24, 2011, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by verwon

No, actually it's the default on iCafe, not here!

I don't think so, I haven't gotten any emails from icafe but have from here a lot. Look at the icafe thread someone posted a screenshot

GGJstudios · Dec 24, 2011, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by TH55

False

It's not false. Email notification is NOT the default for this forum. Besides, on any forum where it may be the default, it takes a mouse click to change it, so what's the problem?

DuckSoup · Dec 24, 2011, 02:37 PM

The main control for it is in your own User Control Panel. Just change it there and then threads you WANT to subscribe to, select that when you post in the thread.

Shrink · Dec 24, 2011, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r.j.s

That is not the default for this forum.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TH55

Haha ya I realized it was actually default here and therefore more relevant on this forum

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False

Wait, let me get this straight, sonny. You have 6 posts on this site, and you're telling a Mod that he doesn't know the sites default settings.

Can you say "hubris". Or for the multilingual - chutzpah

TH55 · Dec 25, 2011, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Shrink

Wait, let me get this straight, sonny. You have 6 posts on this site, and you're telling a Mod that he doesn't know the sites default settings.

Can you say "hubris". Or for the multilingual - chutzpah

Sorry I didn't realize that was a mod, I meant no disrespect. I just didn't understand how I was getting email notifications when I was never prompted to choose to

r.j.s · Dec 25, 2011, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by TH55

Sorry I didn't realize that was a mod, I meant no disrespect. I just didn't understand how I was getting email notifications when I was never prompted to choose to

With the exception of threads you may have chosen to get email notifications for prior to now, you should not be getting any email notifications from this site.

Dec 24, 2011, 02:02 PM	#1
TH55 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2011	Why is the default for most forums to send you email notifications? This is insanely irritating. Your inbox is flooded with useless notifications by default until you root through the settings page to turn them off
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r.j.s Demi-God (Moderator emeritus) Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fort Knox	That is not the default for this forum. __________________ After the Army: no one can stay forever
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