Finer control over comment notification.

[tyggerjai]

Title:
Finer control over comment notification.

Area:
Notification.

Summary:
At the moment, I have selected to receive an email when someone comments on my post (or on a comment to my post, etc). While notification of the initial comment is great, I then seem to get another email for every edit. Please, let me make the madness stop.

Description:
I know people do reply from their inbox/email, and they'd want the latest version of the comment in case something significant has changed, so the ability to choose to receive edits is important.

But I always reply from the post page at DW, so I will always have the most recent version there. I don't need 7 emails "fixing a typo" once I know there's a comment.

Can we add an option to send notification only of the original comment, not every subsequent edit?

Poll #5121 Finer control over comment notification.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 64

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Should be implemented as-is.
22 (34.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (4.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
19 (29.7%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (29.7%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.6%)

Comments

[ratcreature]

I also reply from DW, but I often don't reread a lengthy comment closely, so I wouldn't necessarily spot edits. I would be fine if this was an option for others, but given the "more option are bad" stance of DW, if I could notifications for edits or no notifications, I would want the notifications. Also for minor edits, because sometimes a single word changes a lot, so there is no automated way to spot whether something was substantial or a typo edit.