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Re: Country Club Forum Emails

• JayInAtlanta 1,770 Posts

  Sat, Jul 9 2016 8:34 PM

  I have read everything I can about the way emails work and the various bugs people have had, but I'm still not totally clear on what is actually expected. Since club members sometimes have questions about receiving emails from our internal club forum, I wanted to ask for the record.

  What is the expected behavior for a person to receive email notice of club forum posts? (Assuming this person hasn't unsubscribed from anything.) Here are some specific scenarios:

  - Is a non-officer club member supposed to get an email notice about any new post the owner puts on the forum? (via "Write a New Post")

  - Is a non-officer club member supposed to get an email notice about any new post written by a club officer other than an owner?

  - Is a non-officer club member supposed to get an email notice about any new post written by another random member?

  - Is the club owner him/herself supposed to get an email notice about any new post written by a club officer?

  - Is the club owner him/herself supposed to get an email notice about any new post written by another random member?

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  The way it works for me:

  - I get email notifications when I start a brand new post in the club forum

  - I get NO email notifications about brand new posts in the club forum written by random members.

  - But, I get email notifications when I reply into a post on the club forum.

  Thanks!

  Jay

• alosso 21,087 Posts

  Sat, Jul 9 2016 11:18 PM

  There's no such distinction as you describe it.

  Notices about any forum posts in WGTland are controlled by the "Email me replies..." tick. That means, you have to publish a post or a reply to get close to those emails.

  Here, in the general forums, this tick is visible at the bottom of the edit field, and it's "off" by default. You have to tick it once to receive notice of any further post in the thread. You may later edit this post and tick it "off" to stop it.

  In the CC forums, the ticks are hidden behind the "options" tag and they are "on" by default. You have to un-tick them each time you post or reply to avoid email notices. So, if you don't care about it, you will receive emails without expecting them.

• JayInAtlanta 1,770 Posts

  Sun, Jul 10 2016 1:14 PM

  alosso:

  Notices about any forum posts in WGTland are controlled by the "Email me replies..." tick. That means, you have to publish a post or a reply to get close to those emails.

  <snip>

  In the CC forums, the ticks are hidden behind the "options" tag and they are "on" by default. You have to un-tick them each time you post or reply to avoid email notices. So, if you don't care about it, you will receive emails without expecting them.

  Thanks so much alosso! I did always wonder about the missing "Email me" checkbox in the CC forums.

  So just like the regular forums, any given user (including owners) wouldn't get email notice of brand new posts. Guess there's no option for an owner to have an option to get emails about every single post in their own club's forum.

  One other thing email related and sorry if people have mentioned this bug elsewhere - does anyone else get double or triple copies of every email reply notification? Seems like when I do reply back into a CC thread, I get multiple copies of future responses, my own or other members.

• alosso 21,087 Posts

  Sun, Jul 10 2016 2:35 PM

  Double mails are common, but also single mails.

• genegold2 1,302 Posts

  Sun, Jul 10 2016 3:52 PM

  That happens to random people and let support know about it. It's a WGT bug!