Users are discussing the desire to customize email notifications so they don’t receive emails for their own replies, despite having opted in to notifications for all new posts. Ricardo_Viteri initiated the thread, noting this behavior is confusing. downey agrees and moves the thread to “Feature” category, noting no current setting allows this. Jake_Jackson supports this, calling it annoying to get repeated emails about one’s own posts. codinghorror suggests a community pull request (PR) to add a dropdown option like “Send me email notifications even when I am active on the site [including my posts | except my posts]”. Ricardo_Viteri misunderstands “PR” until codinghorror clarifies it means a code contribution. kstaikov notes a related PR was closed. scombs adds that former listserv users expect to see copies of their own posts and would revolt if they didn’t — but they also don’t want emails for every category, only those they follow. codinghorror questions why the existing “mailing list mode” doesn’t meet this need. scombs explains that mailing list mode isn’t suitable because it sends all category emails, which would overwhelm users focused on only 2–3 legal areas out of 40+. The core need is a granular setting to exclude self-replies from notifications, while preserving other preferences.
Hi, I have selected the setting under preferences to receive an email after every new post. This works fine except that I also get an email from my own replies. I think one should not get emails of post that one writes. Anyway to correct this?
Thanks
AFAIK there’s currently no way to edit this setting, but I can see the value in being able to choose, so I am moving this to the “feature” category unless someone else disagrees.
With mailing lists, this is usually an admin (or user) editable setting, so it’d be nice to see it added in Discourse, especially for those of us migrating away from email lists.
I’m with Ricardo. Getting the 10th email notification about my own reply is counter-intuitive - I already know what I said after all.
If someone wants to take this as a community PR, a drop-down should be added to the setting:
Send me an email for every new post [ including mine | except mine ]
I don’t understand what PR stands for, someon care to explain? Tx!
pull request, e.g. a code contribution. See About pull requests - GitHub Docs
I just had a PR doing this get merged in so issue can be closed
Would love to see this same setting for:
Send me email notifications even when I am active on the site [including my posts | except my posts]
I have some former listserv users who are ready to mutiny over the need to have a copy of their own posts. They can’t fathom (see what I did there) not seeing their own posts/replies that they submit to categories they are watching.
I am a fan of the “users don’t know what they want” theory, but I am about to lose the project over it. Every time the feature request comes up, this happens…
I am unclear why the mailing list mode switch is not workable for your situation, since it is 99% the same thing?
The former listserv users only want to watch their categories. They would absolutely lose it if they got every email for every category.
The site will cover 40+ areas of law and most lawyers only practice in 2 to 3 categories. Would apply to other sites with a variety of distinct subject matter areas, geography, etc.
As discussed on meta, the mailing list mode is the nuclear option. Not sure users should have that option except in limited special purpose sites.
Eventually these users will figure out email doesn’t scale. Until then, they want their email.
