I could see it being useful to split most (if not all) of the various actions listed there into their own separate options, something like this:
- Email when I am:
- Quoted [always|…]
- Replied to [always|…]
- My username is mentioned [always|…]
- When there is new activity in my watched categories, tags, or topics [always|…]
(I grouped those last three because I would expect people who are watching things probably want the same notification settings for all three types of watched collections, but I may be wrong about that)
As a user, I think I might be slightly annoyed if I had to change each one of those separately, but since nobody has stormed the LinkedIn HQ over their egregious notification option mess, perhaps it’s not a huge deal for people to have to change four settings. It would be possible to have a “change all” mechanism, too, but I can’t think of a way off the top of my head to make that UX not be potentially confusing.