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Alerts and Email settings
These settings can be found by clicking your profile on the right top:
The defaults are designed to be kind to your inbox. They will stop emailing you if you don't revisit the thread you were emailed about.
The negative of this is that new people might just see 1 reply to their thread may have a false impression our forum is less active than it actually is and not come back. This hurts the morale of eager question-answerers and forum growth so at one point we will turn this 'full blast' email setting on as a default.
Nonetheless, the 'full blast' and 'kind' can be toggled with the 'generate new alerts without reading threads' setting.
If you have too many alerts/emails from one thread, you can always unwatch it, BTW:
Another option you should know about is alert summarization:
The summarizing option is mostly designed for when dealing with firehose of likes for content. Ie getting +20-100 likes for one post in a short period of time (or one person). It crushes them into a single entry to hopefully avoid obscuring useful alerts while still giving users that feel of +1 Likes.
This is similar to how a social media site consolidates likes/comments when the notifications tab is really busy. If you uncheck this box, alerts will have that behavior.
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