stop email notifications for comments on other people's blogs
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A suggestion for anyone interested, should this be permanent. If you go to your dashboard, scroll down to ‘Settings’ (on left side of page), click on ‘Discussion’ and scroll right down to the bottom of that page, you’ll see ‘Comment Form’ and ‘prompt’ with a text field. Type in there a note to your commenters (for instance, that if they don’t want to be notified of comments they should uncheck the option below the form.) Oh, and when you’ve entered the prompt into the field, don’t forget to click the Save Changes button further down the Discussion settings page.
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this also has been happening to me! I’m totally annoyed!
to the wordpress staff: please uncheck that dang box next to “notify me of follow up comments via email” the default needs to be UNCHECKED as it was before! -
I unchecked the box and I’m STILL getting all replies to posts I’ve commented on. It started last night and it’s driving me around the bend. My inbox is flooded!!
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I’m hoping this is a bug triggered by other changes being made in the background. But, yes, please add one more voice to the chorus asking the default be restored to unchecked!
I can’t imagine what this must be like for bloggers who get hundreds of comments—or for the people who comment on their blogs!
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Me too, another blogger getting comments I haven’t requested. Hope it can be fixed soon.
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Thanks Absurdoldbird for your suggestion. I can imagine how frustrating it is to be flooded with all those emails. Hope the default setting is changed soon.
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And another one! I’m spending half my time unchecking the stupid thing. Between this and the loss of the topics page….. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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WordPress: Change that default for comment notification NOW!
I neither want nor need an inbox full of post comments. If I want to follow comments on a particular post, I’m quite capable of checking that box myself.
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I find the two emails for every comment on my blog VERY annoying. I don’t get that many comments, but still, annoying…
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I’d suggest (if they don’t reverse this which I would think that they probably won’t) that anyone who doesn’t want to receive comment notifications by email, does one (or all) of these:
1. go to your dashboard, scroll down to ‘settings’. Click on settings, click on ‘discussion’. Uncheck ’email me whenever anyone posts a comment’. scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save Changes button.
2. In your email, make a filter so that all comment notifications go into a separate folder. Every few weeks, trash the contents of the folder.
3. In your email, block the comment notifications. That way they’ll be regarded by your email program as spam.
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@absurdoldbird – The only problem is that I want emails when someone comments on my posts. I shouldn’t have to disable all emails to stop the flood of comments from others’ blogs.
Your other suggestions are workable, but in the end we still end up having to deal with the emails.
Of course it’s possible to disable comment subscriptions after the fact, so with time it will be less of an issue, but it’s still both irritating and unnecessary.
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@shoreacres. I completely agree with you. It was only a suggestion. Some people might like to do what I suggested, some won’t.
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I’ve just complained very loudly on my blog about this, http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/wordpress-is-messing-us-about-again/
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No comment from WordPress on this yet? Seriously what the hell?
DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH THIS SUCKS FOR PEOPLE WORDPRESS?
I dont want my commenters flooded with emails just because they dont see they need to uncheck a box suddenly – that theyve never had to uncheck before!!
FIXXXXXX THISSSSSSS
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@fogsmoviereviews – wordpress staff don’t work weekends here. If they comment at all (and I doubt that they will or at least not til things get to their idea of ‘too far’) it’ll be on a weekday!
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I really hope this is a temporary glitch. I hate the idea of my blog spamming people by sending them comment notifications they neither expect nor want.
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please, stop this – now i think twice before commenting. it just makes no sense at all :(
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