Did Someone Change My Default Subscription Settings?

[Provost Harrison]

All of a sudden I have been signed up for emails for replies to all the threads I reply to. I certainly never set this, and do not wish to. I've fixed it.

Do you have an audit trail of changes to the database here? Could you kindly find who did this, take them outside and shoot them? Thanks

[Martin Gühmann]

All of a sudden I have been signed up for emails for replies to all the threads I reply to. I certainly never set this, and do not wish to. I've fixed it.

That's good, for some reason the default setting wasn't email sign up, preventing all the newbees, I mean the real posters with a human brain to come back to their threads when there was a reply. It just took 1.2 seconds to fix it for 23000 users.

Do you have an audit trail of changes to the database here? Could you kindly find who did this, take them outside and shoot them? Thanks

Sory, we don't have an audit trail of changes to the database, here. Sorry. But alternatively, I can take you outside and shot you. That's a great offer isn't it?

-Martin

[Provost Harrison]

I'll pass thanks. Perhaps we should shoot everyone and let your chosen fictitious deity sort them out.

[MOBIUS]

That's good, for some reason the default setting wasn't email sign up, preventing all the newbees, I mean the real posters with a human brain to come back to their threads when there was a reply. It just took 1.2 seconds to fix it for 23000 users.

That just makes you an annoying meddling authoritarian big brother c*nt IMO...

Sory, we don't have an audit trail of changes to the database, here. Sorry. But alternatively, I can take you outside and shot you. That's a great offer isn't it?

-Martin

See my previous comment. I don't even know you and I think you're a douche already...

[Grandpa Troll]

That just makes you an annoying meddling authoritarian big brother c*nt IMO...



See my previous comment. I don't even know you and I think you're a douche already...

Mobius, Martin is an Admin who we here are blessed to have, I reckon you were trollong, maybe not, allways thought you to be a clorful character over the years, just wanted to step up and say all these years, and he didnt have to, but Martin allways took time to help me in my scenario/modding desires in Call To Power

Just sharing is all

Grandpa Troll

[Martin Gühmann]

That just makes you an annoying meddling authoritarian big brother c*nt IMO...

See my previous comment. I don't even know you and I think you're a douche already...

Probably, it's now the time to stop joking here. For some time new users had subscription and notification disabled by default. So they don't get reminders that they got a reply on their questions or problems. This is not good for Apolyton as a whole. We want to have a community here and not somewhere else. The easiest way to fix this is to enter a mySQL querry, which is available predefined.

Of course there is a trade off, on the one hand I reach those that are inactive and have it disabled. On the other hand of course I annoy those who have notifications disabled. I just came to the conclusion the benefit is bigger than the harm. I am sorry for that. I assume that those who don't like it will fix their settings again.

-Martin

[Ben Kenobi]

People, to change the settings,

1. Click on settings in the top right hand bar in the corner.

2. Scroll down until you see "MY SETTINGS"

3. Find the section that says 'my account'

4. Go to 'General Settings'

That will take you to another screen.

Scroll down to 'Messaging and Notification'

Change the setting to -"Do not notify".

[Provost Harrison]

DON'T TELL EVERYONE! I'm an IT consultant...I was going to charge myself out to resolve this problem for at least 100 an hour...and then spend most of my time playing with the coffee machine anyway

[MikeH]

Probably, it's now the time to stop joking here. For some time new users had subscription and notification disabled by default. So they don't get reminders that they got a reply on their questions or problems. This is not good for Apolyton as a whole. We want to have a community here and not somewhere else. The easiest way to fix this is to enter a mySQL querry, which is available predefined.

You should at least have made an announcement to let everyone know, and how to turn them off.

Also, it's dodgy legal ground opting people into subscriptions when they haven't actively done it themselves, at least in the UK...

[MrFun]

What is a mySQL querry?

I'm having the same problem - I'm getting notifications as if I'm subscribed to threads. I want all subscriptions turned off but they still keep coming even after I delete all of them from the subscription folder.

[C0ckney]

yeah this is such bull****. why change the settings of people who've been posting here for 10+ years, it makes no sense.

[MrFun]

Seriously - if this is some kind of prank by an administrator it's a stupid one.

So . . . . tell me how to change the settings back to the WAY THAT I WANT IT?

[C0ckney]

read ben's post and delete all your subscribed threads. it seems to have worked for me

[MrFun]

Hey Martin, from now on, let members decided for THEMSELVES how they like to have their own settings.

[C0ckney]

oh and by the way, thanks ben for posting how to solve this problem.