# Question for Moderators/Knowledgable Dopers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 6, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170 "2001-12-06T04:14:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170/1 "2001-12-06T04:14:15Z")

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I often check the “Email Notification” box to ensure I’ll check back later and read the rest of the replies to a post. What if I change my mind or get sick of the emails piling up in my inbox? Can I stop recieving emails without posting again? And sometimes when I _DO_ post again, without checking the EN box, it _STILL_ sends me emails. Why, oh why? My life is so unbearable like this! It makes me tear my hair out! ::weeps softly:: Help me, oh wise ones. Extend your omniscience to me!

::checks the “Email Notification” box once again with great misgivings::

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**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170/2 "2001-12-06T04:23:18Z")

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[nitpick]  
This should be in the About This Message Board forum. . .  
[/nitpick]

. . .and I have no idea.

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170/3 "2001-12-06T04:32:42Z")

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You can e-mail a moderator or administrator and provide a link to the post where you check notification. We can turn it off for you.

And yes this is a question About This Message Board.

Off to ATMB

**DrMatrix** - General Question Moderator

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170/4 "2001-12-06T06:28:04Z")

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On the bottom of your email notification is this little notice,

**There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more  
notifications until you visit the thread.**

So if you don’t visit the thread from your email, you shouldn’t get any more notifications.

I think.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170/5 "2001-12-06T17:35:56Z")

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But doesn’t that kind of kill the point of notification, if you don’t go back to the thread?

I personally never use it. I don’t usually get on the boards during bad times, and if I really want to know what someone posted in a thread, I tend to remember it, or just do a search.

But that’s just me.

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-moderators-knowledgable-dopers/97170/6 "2001-12-06T17:58:46Z")

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Actually, **imthjckaz** , I’ve held off visiting a thread, but continued to rack up many, many notifications (and still do. I just delete the e-mails rather than bothering a mod right now [actually, I’m too darned lazy to e-mail 'em right now]}.

And [when I asked this question before](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=73103), UncleBeer had the answer (very last post).