# Why are weekly summary emails on by default?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-weekly-summary-emails-on-by-default/149448>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [April 27, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-weekly-summary-emails-on-by-default/149448 "2020-04-27T12:53:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![gubikmic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gubikmic/32/174670_2.png) [@gubikmic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gubikmic)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-weekly-summary-emails-on-by-default/149448/4 "2020-04-29T09:38:50Z")

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I still think that the assumption is unfounded that every user who signs up to some message board is continuously interested in the activity there.

In fact I think that a lot of users sign up because they have some question and then _maybe_ come back but many probably won’t (until they have another question). Certainly not weekly.

I think the default setting should be off; no weekly emails.

It’s odd to me that an open source tool used by many open source projects behaves like some startup trying to improve its “metrics”.

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