At the top right of your screen you'll see your handle with an arrow for a pull down menu. Click on that then choose Alert Preferences. You can get rid of the notifications you don't want there.
I've found if you press the "More options" button under the post text entry window, it brings up an option of "watch this thread" and then a sub option of "and receive email notifications" which are both checked by default.
I'm wondering if because these are checked you are automatically "watching" a thread if you post in it even if you don't intend to watch it
Below are your options under Alert Preferences. You can pick and choose what you want:But what if I like getting the alerts on my bar when I come in here. I find them handy. There should be an option to turn off emails connected to the alerts, but keep the alerts.
Below are your options under Alert Preferences. You can pick and choose what you want:
Messages in Threads
Receive an alert when someone...
Messages on Profile Pages
- Replies to a watched thread
Someone replies to a thread you are watching- Attaches a file to a watched thread
Someone replies and attaches a file to a thread you are watching- Quotes your message
Someone directly quotes one of your messages in a thread- Likes your message
Someone likes one of your messages in a thread
I think I found the answer under browsing preferences, just making a post to make sure.
Did it work?
Just what I suspected. The alerts thing only turns off the alert notifications at the top of the forum. There is some option we can't see that must be accessible to the admins to turn off this feature. While I can live with these notifications, it's a real pain in the ass and I'd really really like them to go away.
I shut off all of the alerts and still am getting e-mails as well, possibly not as many. I wonder if ones that were activated initially do not stop even when you change the preferences. Maybe not. I agree, though, that this is not working as it is.
I see the setting under Preferences, not under the Alert Preferences menu.
àPreferences
à à Options
à à à Automatically watch threads that you create or when you reply...
à à à à and receive email notifications of replies
After I unchecked the box for email notifications I stopped receiving the email alerts
Alright, try this:
Under the options when you click on your handle at the top, click on “Watched Threads”
Mine defaults to “Unread Watched Threads”
Below the last listed thread, there is an option (small font) to “Show all watched threads”
When the full list displays, check the box for each of the threads, then go to the bottom of the page and in the list/drop down box that reads (for me, anyway) “with selected…”, choose “Disable email notification”, then click “Go”.
That might do it. Not sure if you will have to repeat this, or do it once for the threads you were watching before you shut down the email notification option under “Preferences”.