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Thread reply email notifications are supposed to be sent for the first reply since you've viewed the thread, and not again until you do view it. The email even states this, and it's always worked that way until last weekend. Now I'm getting email notifications when someone replies to a subscribed thread, even if I haven't viewed the thread since the last reply.

Is anyone else having this problem?
I PM'd Administrator last weekend about this but never got a reply. Actually I've never gotten a reply any time I've ever PM'd Administrator.
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Thread reply email notifications are supposed to be sent for the first reply since you've viewed the thread, and not again until you do view it. The email even states this, and it's always worked that way until last weekend. Now I'm getting email notifications when someone replies to a subscribed thread, even if I haven't viewed the thread since the last reply.

Is anyone else having this problem?
I PM'd Administrator last weekend about this but never got a reply. Actually I've never gotten a reply any time I've ever PM'd Administrator.
http://www.civicx.com/account/alert-preferences
Click that link, uncheck persistent updates, then make sure you save changes.
 
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http://www.civicx.com/account/alert-preferences
Click that link, uncheck persistent updates, then make sure you save changes.
Thanks a lot, Sgtstaadanko! According to the second part of that setting's description, that should do it. That's either a new or changed setting, or maybe a recent forum update enabled it.
"If disabled, you'll only be alerted for new posts since the last time you viewed the thread."

Not sure what the first part of it means.
"If enabled, you will be alerted/emailed (based on your settings) for every post in a watched thread as long as you have no unread alerts for that thread."

It's sad/strange that I PM'd both Administrator and the only mod I've seen on here, and neither replied to my PM, or here. What's up with that? I've been part of hundreds of forums and have never had that happen.
 


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Now I'm not getting all the alerts I should, including one for a reply post immediately after mine (a couple hours later), so I definitely should have gotten one.
Edit: Maybe ti was a fluke, or it's sporadic. I seem to be getting them now.

Also I'm curious exactly what that setting is trying to say. It's not worded well IMO.
"Persistent Alerts Enabled
If enabled, you will be alerted/emailed (based on your settings) for every post in a watched thread as long as you have no unread alerts for that thread. If disabled, you'll only be alerted for new posts since the last time you viewed the thread."

As worded, it sounds like it should do the same thing for either way it's set.
 
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Yeah I was getting a flood of e-mail alerts. Took off persistent updates and that fixed it.
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