Is there a way of getting notified when someone replies to a post owned by the system user? For obvious reasons, I wouldn’t want to set the site contact username to a real person but I’d like to know when people reply, for example to the welcome message, a category definition or other system owned p…

When I initially set up my site, I saw that many admins had been complaining about drowning in (useless) notifications so I thought it was wise to let these go to system. If I’m not mistaken, that was the basic idea of having the system user in the first place, no? So my question was basically "how …

Check the system user periodically? I dunno, at some level, users who try talking to a wall are.. talking to a wall. All you can do is make the wall more .. clearly labeled a wall? [صورة] Discobot explicitly tells people to go to the /about page and use that information if they want to talk to a …

Also these days we allow the site contact to be a group, which kind of lets you have the cake and eat it at the same time.

How to notify admins of replies to posts by system user?

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fefrei (Felix Freiberger) 9 مايو 2017، 9:11ص 2

What obvious reason? Changing this setting is the way to solve these problems

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How to notify admins of replies to posts by system user?

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