# Do you subscribe to a thread once you've posted on it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012 "2018-08-03T01:51:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![squish7](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squish7/32/104_2.png) [@squish7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squish7)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/1 "2018-08-03T01:51:35Z")
If I post a thread and someone answers, I often want to respond or ask a question, but then I wonder, is that person even going to ever check out the thread again? If you respond to a question, esp an OP, how often do you subscribe to the thread? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/2 "2018-08-03T01:53:57Z")
> [@squish7](#): > > If I post a thread and someone answers, I often want to respond or ask a question, but then I wonder, is that person even going to ever check out the thread again? > If you respond to a question, esp an OP, how often do you subscribe to the thread? If you post in a thread you are automatically subscribed to it. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/3 "2018-08-03T01:57:15Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > If you post in a thread you are automatically subscribed to it. You’re automatically subscribed, but you’re not automatically notified. You have to request notification, though you might be able to set that as a default for all subscribed threads. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/4 "2018-08-03T02:19:04Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > You’re automatically subscribed, but you’re not automatically notified. You have to request notification, though you might be able to set that as a default for all subscribed threads. You’re automatically subscribed by default, but that’s an option you can change. Options are: Do not subscribe No email notification Instant email notification Daily email notification Weekly email notification. The setting is global. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/5 "2018-08-03T02:44:02Z")
Generally, I’ll check back into threads I’ve posted in every time i click through the forum they are in until i forget i posted or i get bored with reading the thread. If work picks up that may mean I never come back other times I’ll check into the thread 3 or 4 times an hour. I think I turned of subscriptions or at least I have no idea if I’m subscribed to any threads. I appoligise to any one who responded to me and I never saw it. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/6 "2018-08-03T15:48:11Z")
No but I do check back for several days and read/respond as appropriate. When I sign in the first thing I do is call up all my posts and check down through the last couple days and read anything that got replies. I just find it easier for me than doing subscriptions. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/7 "2018-08-03T16:45:55Z")
I don’t subscribe, I don’t get notified. If I care enough, I’ll return to the thread on my own. I don’t need the board to nag me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/8 "2018-08-03T17:15:58Z")
I don’t even know about subscriptions. Is there a page somewhere that tells me all the people who responded that I’ve never looked at? I just use “find all posts by” and check them one by one for new developments. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-subscribe-to-a-thread-once-youve-posted-on-it/819012/9 "2018-08-03T17:19:50Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > You’re automatically subscribed by default, but that’s an option you can change. > > Options are: > Do not subscribe > No email notification > Instant email notification > Daily email notification > Weekly email notification. > > The setting is global. To clarify even further: You can change what the default is for you (User CP -\> Edit Options -\> Messaging & Notification -\> Default Theread Subscription Mode), and you can also change what happens with a particular thread when replying to that thread (under Additional Options below the reply box). My default is to subscribe without email notifications. Unless I’m busy in a way that takes me away from the Dope, I’ll check my subscribed threads several times a day (by clicking User CP) and see what’s new in them (or at least the ones I haven’t lost interest in). So, bottom line, if I post something in a thread and you respond, I’m _probably_ going to see it. But occasionally your reply will get lost in all the other thread traffic, or I won’t make it back to the thread for a while.