Y HELO THAR TESTING

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

Court brought up the issue of "inbox flooding" for people whose initial area posts incur a ton of responses (like in the case of hallways for room posts and . . . like all the dayshift posts), so I thought I'd see how the "Comments: Don't E-mail" setting works.  I'm disabling comment e-mails on this post.  I hope that setting will only apply to the e-mails I would get just from posting THIS part and that it leaves all other comment e-mail behavior (from posting in threads) alone.

So let's see what happens.  If this is a favorable solution, I shouldn't receive e-mails from commenters, but anyone who posts a comment and gets a reply should get an e-mail (if they have their accounts set to e-mail, of course).

READY?  SOMEBODY POST A COMMENT AND SOMEBODY REPLY TO IT AND report back XD

EDIT: I'd also like to add that there's a fantastic Firefox extension called Livejournal Addons that, among a ton of things, lets you "subscribe" to a thread (or a post, but it's trickier for a post), and it'll check it/them at intervals and let you know if it's been updated and you can visit it from the extension.  I find it pretty useful.

EDIT2: looks like the "allow comments: don't e-mail" function, located under the post body on updates/edits on the livejournal post page, is a viable solution for people not wanting to get slammed with e-mails when they receive the dubious honor of making an area post.  It only turns off e-mails you would normally receive from just making the post, but threading response e-mails, including any the poster participates in, are still issued as normal. :D

It also turns out that you can toggle this setting by editing the post (thanks zeus_incarnate and haruhiism), so if you forget to set the option, or you only want initial comments e-mailed to you, you can come back and change that option.

Comments

[continuum.livejournal.com]

OPERATION GUINEA PIG EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS COMMENCING...NOW.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

TESTING ONE TWO THREE

[screwthegods]

SPAM!

...Yeah, I don't know.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

I got your comment emailed to me! :D

[screwthegods]

Comment! And yeah, paid users can keep track of threads too.

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

Sure can! I just wasn't sure how many people have paid accounts, so I didn't mention it. Plus I usually try not using the message center because unlike the old e-mail default option, you still have to delete message center notices even if they've been e-mailed, which I find irritating. But I have used the option before and it has been super useful.

I like this firefox extension better though I must say.

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

Oh, also, I might be blind, but where is this "Comments: Don't e-mail" setting? :x

[screwthegods]

When you go to post an entry, there's a drop down that's labeled "Comment Settings", I think.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Under the comment setting option, when you post an entry. :D

[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

So let's say you make a nightshift thread ... M1-M10 Hallway, for example. You want to get comments at first to see what's going on, but then your character has moved on and you don't really need to know about any of the threads in that post anymore. Could you go back and edit it to "don't email"?

[haruhiism.livejournal.com]

Could you go back and edit it to "don't email"?

I'm pretty sure that works. Maybe someone should test that too?

[zeus-incarnate.livejournal.com]

You can

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

you could also just subscribe to that post's comments using the message center and then unsubscribe when you didn't need it anymore, but of course that means having to delete the notices in the message center even if they've been e-mailed to you.

[melting.livejournal.com]

IS THIS SUM SPAM THREAD

BECAUSE I AM TOTALLY ON FOR SPAMMING

[her-lion.livejournal.com]

WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT SPAM

[melting.livejournal.com]

I WANNA DO IT

[bondofflame.livejournal.com]

[chaoticchicken.livejournal.com]

[melting.livejournal.com]

[wyna-hiros.livejournal.com]

Spammity spam spam.

[melting.livejournal.com]

SPAM SPAM

[famira.livejournal.com]

Don't make me start busting out the random pictures. :P

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

HAHA WOAH I'M GLAD I WASN'T E-MAILED FOR ALL THOSE

But let's see if I'll still get e-mails for threads I participate in.

GIMME A REPLY? YES/YES

[haiiro-no-chou.livejournal.com]

YES

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

YES \o/

e-mailed :D