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Is there any way to quickly disable email notifications for the forums? I went to alert preferences and turned off the option to receive email notifications, but it didn’t seem to change anything.
 
I would tell you how I did it but I have never received any emails from this forum since we swapped software, so I didn't really have to. All of mine are ticked still.

IN theory that is where you change them.
Settings/preferences.
oddly, it also shows in Settings/Account details screen

Obvious question: Why is it two places in settings? I can't answer that question (Gets thrown into a pit (If you don't understand that reference, refer link))
 
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Colif said:
I would tell you how I did it but I have never received any emails from this forum since we swapped software, so I didn't really have to. All of mine are ticked still.

IN theory that is where you change them.
Settings/preferences.
oddly, it also shows in Settings/Account details screen

Obvious question: Why is it two places in settings? I can't answer that question (Gets thrown into a pit (If you don't understand that reference, refer link))
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The options in both places are unchecked. Also nice reference. 😂
 
Ralston18 said:
What is your current setting for stay logged in?

I am willing to tinker with my settings somewhat but I need some baseline to begin with.
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I know that I have a ton of threads that I have watched or replied to that have email notifications, but it doesn’t explain why it happens with new threads despite disabling all email notifications.
(Or so I thought)
 
What are your email settings under Account Details?

Otherwise not sure what else to suggest.....

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Regarding " but it doesn’t explain why it happens with new threads".

What is being considered as a new thread?

Look for some pattern(s).

Threads where notifications were received but you should not have received notifications - at least from your perspective.

And then, of course the opposite, you expected a notification but did not receive a notification.
 
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Ralston18 said:
What are your email settings under Account Details?

Otherwise not sure what else to suggest.....
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Under account details, both options for email notifications are unchecked.
Ralston18 said:
What is being considered as a new thread?

Look for some pattern(s).

Threads where notifications were received but you should not have received notifications - at least from your perspective.

And then, of course the opposite, you expected a notification but did not receive a notification.
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a new thread is any thread that a user creates in certain forums. I just want to stop receiving all email notifications, but without going through every single thread I’ve ever watched or replied to, I don’t know how else to do it.
 
Colif said:
Do you have any watched forums? There is an options screen in https://forums.tomshardware.com/watched/forums that lets you manage them, and change notification settings for them.

same applies for https://forums.tomshardware.com/watched/threads
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I think I fixed it, I didn’t realize there was an option to disable all emails that I could click. I will wait and see though. Edit: thanks everyone for their help, I fixed it. I didn’t even know there was an option inside the emails to disable them because I wouldn’t read the emails, I would go straight to the forums.
 
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I actually do get one email from one of the tom's forums, just not this one. Tom's Guide sends me emails sometimes, I noticed yesterday. I wonder if something went wrong when we split up in 2019. But I can live without emails :)
 
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I actually do get one email from one of the tom's forums, just not this one. Tom's Guide sends me emails sometimes, I noticed yesterday. I wonder if something went wrong when we split up in 2019. But I can live without emails :)
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I like being notified, but because I follow so many forums, the amount of emails is ridiculous. I know I could change the settings so I don't get emails every single time something happens, but still. I think I have gotten about 8,000 emails since changing my email to a personal one. I know I should delete them, but I don't check my personal email often.
 
I used to get an email for every Best Answer and well, I have a Gmail folder with 464 emails in it - I must have deleted more at some stage. Last one dated Feb 12 2019. 276 are unread as I used to get too many.
Then we got Xenforo and I never got one again.
 
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I used to get an email for every Best Answer and well, I have a Gmail folder with 464 emails in it - I must have deleted more at some stage. Last one dated Feb 12 2019. 276 are unread as I used to get too many.
Then we got Xenforo and I never got one again.
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I do wish I would have gotten an email for my first best answer, I know it doesn't matter and that it is stupid, but I wish there was some way I could find it. Changing my username seemed to mess it up though.
 
Some things are hard to find. I wouldn't know what my 1st Best Answer was... and really, I don't know if I want to know... I have learned a lot in 8 years and probably correct myself :)
Easier to find first question... since its in Your Threads search. But other things are lost to time...

Typically my first question was answered by.... me.
Same happened on 2nd one as well. Seems to be case with most of mine actually.
Generally if I ask a question I have already looked for answers.
 
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