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

[cheyinka]

It makes sense why you wouldn't like people keeping notifications off on public entries, but why not on locked entries?

The reason I don't have notifications on in most places is because when an entry's old enough that I'm not checking it for new comments myself, it's old enough that I don't care if anybody's left me a comment; it'd be annoying to be reminded of comments to entries I don't care about. I can understand why you'd want to make sure people knew about spam, so that if they continued to ignore it it was their choice to do so, but spammers can't hit locked entries, so...

[matgb]

To reiterate, I have no problem with it on that level on locked entries. I'd like you to know I've commented, even on an old entry, as that's social interaction stuff. But if you want to turn it off, that's your choice, on locked entries.

But on public entries? Kill all spam dead, those that fail to do so encourage more spammers.