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Is anyone else getting bombarded by Unity Answers?
Received 40 emails over the last two days along the lines of "XXX was posted on a topic you've successfully answered in the past. Here's the new question:".
This has only been happening for a week or so, did someone change global notification settings? It's a tad annoying getting an inbox clogged up with all this stuff but at the same time I'd rather not filter emails from Unity Answers.
If anyone knows of a way to throttle this in the new unity answers system I'd love to know :)
Yep, been getting that a lot as well recently. Thankfully, Gmail is smart enough to know to separate notifications regarding new comments, new answers and new questions, and compile them into their own hierarchy.
Yeah, and it's brilliant! I set my notifications to show me all questions that get posted, so now I have a feed of all the questions you guys have. Yeh!
I had noticed that too so I turned it off.
Go to your profile and then click "user tools" and email notification settings. Uncheck the box that says "A question in my area of expertise is posted." Then it will stop emailing you when new questions are posted. You can edit all the other available settings there as well.
Thank's mate. $$anonymous$$ust be as blind as a bat not to have spotted that menu.
I love the option to receive a notification "When any new question is posted" :D
There should be a notification "When anyone types something on the internet". ;) The "successfully answered" thing was actually working pretty well for me and was quite relevant until a few days ago, then it suddenly started spam$$anonymous$$g me bigtime for no apparent reason, so after a day or two of that I had to turn it off.
Hey guys. We're looking at tweaking what this notification picks to send to. Some mails were probably not getting sent before due to an error which has been "fixed". This leads to more mails. What we'll probably do is limit the check to find people active in the last month. Hopefully this will help.
Just as a thought, it might be an idea to give users the option to filter email notifications by the askers reputation level? That way you can help out with the simple "How do I make a cube" type questions when you're on the site - but they won't clog up your mailbox when you're not?
One time waster is that very often a question is already well-answered by the time I read my email, so perhaps only ever send any email if the question is unanswered for, say, 1 hour, or once it fall off the hot questions list, etc. I think this covers the reputation filter too (I don't think anyone $$anonymous$$ds answering those, but as @demize2010 says, they can usually be quickly gone over on-site by anyone).
I'm accustomed from previous workplaces to skimming through a few hundred messages in a few minutes each day, but a little more control would be good.
Bombarded, no. The first (and only) e-mail I've gotten about this was:
Hi Slippy Douglas,
Is anyone else getting bombarded by Unity Answers? was posted on a topic you've successfully answered in the past. Here's the new question:
Received 40 emails over the last two days along the lines of "XXX was posted on a topic you've successfully answered in the past. Here's the new question:".
This has only been happening for a week or so, did someone change global notification settings? It's a tad annoying getting an inbox clogged up with all this stuff but at the same time I'd rather not filter emails from Unity Answers.
If anyone knows of a way to throttle this in the new unity answers system I'd love to know :)
Click here to look at the question Just a reminder, you can change your notification preferences at any time by clicking Here!
It's a bigger problem for users who have answered hundreds of questions in almost every subject area.
