No notification on watched threads.

kaceyo · Sep 15, 2020

To Whom...
I've never gotten email notices when I use the "watch" link for individual threads. I did get notices for each and every post when I "watched" the chemistry forum for awhile, but zip on the individual threads. I'd REALLY appreciate it if someone could look into that and let me know what the problem is, or fix it if possible.
Thanks,
Kacey

Flippers4pups · Sep 15, 2020

kaceyo said:
To Whom...
I've never gotten email notices when I use the "watch" link for individual threads. I did get notices for each and every post when I "watched" the chemistry forum for awhile, but zip on the individual threads. I'd REALLY appreciate it if someone could look into that and let me know what the problem is, or fix it if possible.
Thanks,
Kacey

Click on your user icon. A drop down menu will appear. Look for “preferences” and click on it. Look for

Click on automatically watch content your interact with. Click and receive email notifications.

kaceyo · Sep 18, 2020

Sorry it's taken so long...but I've had all the options for receiving emails checked since day one. As I said above, I got notices for all new reply's and threads on the chemistry forum when "watching" that. It just doesn't work on individual threads I try to watch. Go figure. A glitch somewhere. Or?

SMSREEF · Sep 18, 2020

This is happening to me as well.
Even my own build thread I miss new posts sometimes.
I feel bad when I don’t respond in timely manner to replys.
am I watching too many threads maybe?

Flippers4pups · Sep 18, 2020

#MODS @Crabs McJones

kaceyo · Sep 18, 2020

SMSREEF said:
This is happening to me as well.
Even my own build thread I miss new posts sometimes.
I feel bad when I don’t respond in timely manner to replies.
am I watching too many threads maybe?

I don't have many watched threads, and this has been happening for a long time, when I had even fewer.

vetteguy53081 · Sep 18, 2020

Yup- @Crabs McJones is the guy !!

Crabs McJones · Sep 18, 2020

When you watch a thread, are you selecting the "and receive emaila" option?

Nick Steele · Sep 18, 2020

Also if you have watched threads and get notifications a few times but don’t click on them to look they stop sending the notifications

SMSREEF · Sep 18, 2020

Crabs McJones said:
When you watch a thread, are you selecting the "and receive emaila" option?

No, I select no emails. Just way too many of those as is...

Crabs McJones · Sep 18, 2020

SMSREEF said:
No, I select no emails. Just way too many of those as is...

It may be the solution to the OP's problem. When you "Watch" a thread withoutcommenting, it will give you the option to receive email alerts similar to if you would have posted in the thread. By default the "do not receive emails" is selected, make sure if you do want email alerts when a post is made in a thread to select "and receive email notifications",

kaceyo · Sep 19, 2020

Crabs McJones said:
It may be the solution to the OP's problem. When you "Watch" a thread withoutcommenting, it will give you the option to receive email alerts similar to if you would have posted in the thread. By default the "do not receive emails" is selected, make sure if you do want email alerts when a post is made in a thread to select "and receive email notifications",

I have all the options for receiving emails checked. Also I never receive any notices, don't ever get the opportunity to comment unless I check to see for myself if there are comments.

Crabs McJones · Sep 19, 2020

@Daniel@R2R is an admin, he can go in and check it out for you

kaceyo · Sep 19, 2020

Crabs McJones said:
@Daniel@R2R is an admin, he can go in and check it out for you

I havn't seen him on this thread. Is he a mod that's on the computer probs team? Don't want to bug him directly if he's not.

Crabs McJones · Sep 19, 2020

kaceyo said:
I havn't seen him on this thread. Is he a mod that's on the computer probs team? Don't want to bug him directly if he's not.

Hes one of the administrators, he has more access than me and the rest of the mods. He can go in and see if it's a setting issue or a site issue

kaceyo · Sep 19, 2020

Crabs McJones said:
Hes one of the administrators, he has more access than me and the rest of the mods. He can go in and see if it's a setting issue or a site issue

Great, I'll ask him to look at this thread.

Crabs McJones · Sep 19, 2020

kaceyo said:
Great, I'll ask him to look at this thread.

I tagged him above so he'll get a notification about it

kaceyo · Sep 19, 2020

Crabs McJones said:
I tagged him above so he'll get a notification about it

Great, Thanks.

Daniel@R2R · Sep 19, 2020

On watched threads, you should be getting a notification for the next interaction/reply after you checked it. You won't get additional interaction notifications after that unless you check the thread. The software is set up that way to keep people from being bombarded with notifications.