Something is going on. I wish I had an idea what or why.
Is anyone experiencing an increase in traffic in their mailbox? Is everyone you follow showing up in your inbox INCLUDING all the followers they have when they comment?
I’t been an eventful afternoon but I don’t have time for all this extra READING, which I can’t help doing because these other comments are in my Inbox after all.
Does anyone know how to get a complaint out to the right party at WordPress so this stops?
Another blogger just put out a lament also:
http://theinvisibleshadow.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/whacky-wordpress/
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May 4, 2012 at 9:14 pm
I hadn’t noticed, but I will keep an ear to the ground and an eye to the inbox… and if I figger out who to call I’ll let ya know too…
🙂
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May 4, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Nothing here, but I’ll watch for any changes!
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May 4, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Lucky you. I bet I’ve had at least 300 non-direct e-mails today. Drat. So time-consuming especially since I’m so curious and NEED to read all the ones in my inbox that have nothing to do with me. Tess
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May 4, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Just uncheck the box that says “notify me …” that should stop it.
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May 4, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Have you noticed that that box is not AVAILable now? Also some of the comments on some blogger’s pages cover up the LIKE box too (there seems to be an overlap here—a couple of days now but I thought it was just one or two—not so)—sp whacky. Hope we hear news soon. How’s your inbox? Mine a headache ALL DAY TOday. Tess (until this clears up)
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May 4, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Just started happening with one of the blogs I follow – all the comments posted, and I hadn’t clicked “follow comments.” Probably a temp glitch.
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May 4, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Yes I am…but I haven’t changed any of my settings.
Be encouraged!
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May 4, 2012 at 9:43 pm
are you sure you are not here with me? i say this because my email box is flooded. i took brother out and when i got home i have almost 700 emails. i don’t want to ignore anyone, but i can’t respond to each one. if i don’t respond, they will not respond to me either. i just don’t know how to handle all of this in a polite way
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May 4, 2012 at 10:02 pm
700???…Terry you should run for office…I would vote for you…lol.
be encouraged!
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May 4, 2012 at 10:36 pm
There’s a reason YOUNGER candidates run for whatever. Who the HECK has the energy for all this?
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May 4, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Most of your requirement will be to DELETE as the comments you are getting in your INbox are related to someone you follow but that other people follow also. I got slowed down because I was reading all THEIR comments. Hope they fix this soon. Tess
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May 4, 2012 at 10:07 pm
terry1954 … someone helped me figure out the problem, and also how to fix it … check out my comment later in this post … good luck
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May 4, 2012 at 10:04 pm
700 emails? Are you kidding me? I think you have been spammed, blogger friend! There is definitely something wrong! …
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May 4, 2012 at 10:05 pm
After I posted the same question on my blog, here’s what I’ve learned:
WordPress is mucking around making changes. In do so, they have automatically checked the little box on the comment page that says “please send me an email update every time someone comments on this blog post”.
If you leave a comment, and don’t realize the box is already checked, then you will automatically receive an email every time someone comments on that blog post. Apparently the trick is to remember to uncheck the box every time you leave a comment (or until they put it back the way it used to be, which was to leave the box unchecked all the time, and give you the choice of checking it).
There is also a way to go into your settings and “quit receiving updates” on each individual blog post for which you’re receiving multiple email updates every time someone comments, but my own personal experience in doing this is that it’s labor intensive, and about half the time I get it wrong and accidentally end up “unfollowing” someone’s blog that I want to follow. I’m just going to wait it out. Eventually the comments will slow down on most of the blog posts. Unless we get lucky enough to comment on someone’s post and they have like a gazillion followers that like to leave comments.
If you want to try the “change my settings” route, here’s a HOW TO:
Go to your Dashboard.
Just underneath the word “Dashboard” there is a list of menu items
Click on the one that says “Blogs I Follow”
When you do that, a new page opens up
At the top of page (under the blue house) you’ll see four categories:
Sites, Comments, Pending, Settings
Click on “Comments”
This will open a new page
Here, you will see a list of blog sites (left) and their blog posts (middle)
(these are all the ones you’re getting email notifications from)
(there should be one for every blog post you’re receiving emails updates on)
Here, you have two choices:
(1) you can delete them individually, or
(2) you can delete them all at one time in one big bunch
To delete them individually:
use your mouse to hover over an individual blog name
you should see the word “delete” show up in red
if you click on the red word delete, your screen will refresh, and *presto*
you’ve just deleted one blog comment notification
To delete them all at one time:
*caution* *caution* *caution* *caution*
before you do this, make sure you’re on the right page
you can tell by looking at the top of your screen
the word “comments” should be bolded in black under the blue house
if so, then to delete all of them at one time:
click on all the boxes on the page
this will put a green check in every box
about halfway down the page, under the blue box, click on blue arrow
(the blue arrow is located directly to the right of the words Bulk Actions)
after you click on the arrow, click on the word “Unfollow”
Then click on the gray button that says “Apply”
your screen should refresh after a few moments, and *presto*
you have now quit following the comments on each blog post
*note – you may have to repeat this process if you are following pages and pages and pages of blog posts … hopefully not … depends on how many
There are variations on how you can do this, but for me, those are the steps that work the best. Complicated, pain in the rear, and like I said, about half the time I get it wrong, so generally speaking, I try not to mess with them.
hope that helps
what a pain, right? thank goodness there are plenty of people more computer literate than me that generally help me figure this stuff out.
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May 4, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Same thing here. So glad to find out it’s not my computer!
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May 4, 2012 at 10:11 pm
Let’s enjoy the WILD time. Why not? It’s been a bit of a shock but if I don’t go to sleep tonight, maybe I’ll be able to keep my inbox UNPLUGGED? What do YOU think?
Tess
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May 4, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Hi Tess!
Exactly!
Who knows. We could discover something totally unexpected in an out of the ether comment from a completely random person on this perfectly imperfect day!
Leslie
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May 4, 2012 at 10:14 pm
A big thanks to you ntexas99…appreciate your detailed instructions.
be encouraged!
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May 4, 2012 at 10:29 pm
just passing it on … someone helped me,
and now it’s my turn to return the favor
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May 4, 2012 at 10:43 pm
i have nominated you for the kreativ and very inspiring blogging award
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May 4, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Thank you. Many, many thanks, in fact. A couple of days ago, I actually MADE time to catch up on delinquent award responses I’d had to catch up on since January 2012. I am OVER THE MOON when someone nominates me but habe been having a stinke of a time trying to catchup trying to connect everyone and perform all the rules. Sorry, I haven’t been able to do that since September last and it doesn’t look too encouraging before summer’s end. I WANT ALL of you to know that I am not, and have NEVER, avoided taking to all our faithful blogosphere Tess
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May 5, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Thanks so much Terry: I’m tickled PINK. I hope you won’t mind that it’ll take me a while to catchup on my awards. They’ve been stacking up since January. I made a stab once in a while for a couple of minutes. Since September, I’ve been overwhelmed with work which eats into my blogging time and all things computer. I appreciate this lovely gesture from the bottom of my heart. Tess
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May 4, 2012 at 11:06 pm
i understand. I get overwhelmed too
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May 4, 2012 at 11:13 pm
There is another quicker fix. If you forget to untick the box, make another comment and untick. It will override the first ticked box. That is LOADS easier.
Consider yourself lucky. I have been to about six blogs where no one can comment, click, like or anything else.
Red.
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May 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Hiya, Red. I just noticed today when I finally got e-mails after almost none for two days that one MUST comment now just to unclick the darn box. The box doesn’t show unless you click inside the comment box and it will revert back to clicked if you don’t leave a comment. Are we going backwards or what? Seems to me, we’re being FORCED to respond of pay the consequences. In a way, this is almost funny. Tess
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May 7, 2012 at 11:04 pm
These seems to be one reverbing around the blogosphere. I think with a sufficient number of complaints, WP may cave on this one. Not sure which plugin they used on your, but check your discussion settings. You may be able to change the default to unchecked. I know the one I have I set it to unchecked.
Worth a look 😉
Red.
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May 4, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Yes! I was wondering what was going on. I actually shut off my email notifications earlier today, because it was just too much…figured I’ll go to the ‘reader’ and read other blogs from there in my time, instead of trying to deal with an inbox of hundreds of messages. Glad it wasn’t just me…but hope they get the problem sorted soon.
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May 6, 2012 at 5:17 pm
You mean the READER at the pull down menu where your name is? I tried that but none of the tabs activate except for the Status one.
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May 6, 2012 at 5:27 pm
I usually access the reader from my ‘stats’ page. There are tabs above the graph with your views, and I click on the reader there and it takes me to the blogs I follow. I can from there, choose to view according to topics or whatever, but the first thing that’s listed for me is the ones I follow.
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May 4, 2012 at 11:29 pm
uh-oh… just had a peek at my inbox and SLAM… I got slammed… it’s time for me to put the laptop to bed anyhoo, so I hope what should happen, happens – ie I get up in the AM and find it’s all better… (good thing I’m not aholding my breath)!!!
g’night and good luck everybody…
🙂
janet
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May 4, 2012 at 11:34 pm
oops – just checking… since I read up before turning in – didn’t want to be attacked by comments in my dreams!!!
nice way to have a party, Tess!!!
🙂
janet
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May 5, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Some party! All that excitement made me fall into bed and no dreams or nightmares. Thanks Kat for dropping by.
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May 4, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Ugh, sorry that you went through that! I hope you can manage to get it resolved. ntexas99’s advice seems good.
Speaking of that, I noticed that the box was checked for me too. I made sure to uncheck it before posting!
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May 4, 2012 at 11:59 pm
I noticed it too and started manually unchecking the comments by email box. Seems to have solved the problem. As others have said, WordPress must have changed the default position. Hope your band usage was not effected.
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May 5, 2012 at 9:44 pm
The excitement’s over. Whew. Time for a breather.
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May 5, 2012 at 12:18 am
Loads of email for me too. The “Notify me of follow up comments via email” is ticked automatically and I now have to untick it. If I forget, every comment made to this post will end up in my email. Arhhhhhh. No more email, I get enough.
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May 5, 2012 at 9:43 pm
I didn’t know how to do anything till this morning when I got a “like” from someone and saw modify subscriptions or something like that at the bottom. Below Comment box didn’t work for me because it seems those two boxes have disappeared. Will check again tomorrow. At least we can breathe now. Whew, the worst of behind us. Thanks for making time to comment.
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May 5, 2012 at 1:14 am
Hi Tess, Yes, that’s happening to me too. I thought maybe i had accidentally activated some computer function, but couldn’t figure out what or how to make it stop. It is a pan, and time consuming.
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May 5, 2012 at 9:40 pm
I had the same thought. What could I have hit that I shouldn’t have and nobody was complaining for a LONG time. I couldn’t wait to stop and fall into bed last night. Seems like I did the right thing for the fix. Hope you did too.
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May 5, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Not yet! I will apply myself tonight, perhaps, but haven’t been able to make myself sit down and fiddle with it. I’m glad you solved your problem. It gives me hope!
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May 5, 2012 at 2:08 am
Thank heavens that isn’t happening to me….I already have 700 of my own e-mails to sort out!
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May 5, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Hi “47”. Didn’t know this this morning how to fix yesterdays problems but it’s OVER now. Whew. Nice hearing from you.
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May 6, 2012 at 4:04 am
I had hardly sent this comment when I started receiving all the comment e-mails too.
Mainly from your post. 🙂
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May 5, 2012 at 3:18 am
This is really annoying, like you I don’t want to miss the real ones – its hard enough keeping up as it is. I think I have stopped them coming now!
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May 5, 2012 at 3:00 pm
I still don’t know if I’ve fixed mine. They were still coming on crazy this morning …
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May 5, 2012 at 9:37 pm
I was too zonked last night to be ‘careful’ and not wanting to be hasty, I went to bed. Had 300 excess e-mails this morning. Finally found where the correction needed to be made. Thanks for stopping by.
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May 5, 2012 at 3:54 am
When you comment on a post a little checkbox appears below with notify me of follow-up comments via email. Untick the box
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July 10, 2012 at 8:03 pm
We’re all set now, right?
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July 11, 2012 at 3:03 am
hopefully yes! 🙂
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July 10, 2012 at 8:51 pm
i had that happen two months ago, and i had to go in and change my settings as far as following others. WordPress, has gone behind our backs and automaticlly checked everyone’s follow boxes, now u have to change it manually on your boxes or settings. just check each reply you read, for the box below the comment, if it is checked, uncheck it if u don’t want to follow that person
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May 5, 2012 at 4:04 am
I’m whispering as I say this, Tess – I haven’t noticed anything untoward where my inbox is concerned. I think WP are making more changes though, for yesterday, the orange notification counter at the top of the screen that goes up to 9 when something happens (comment / like / follow etc) stopped showing numbers, and flashed a selection of speech bubbles, squares and stars. Shortly afterwards, it went back to numbers again…
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May 5, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Huh. That little box was the only thing that HADN’t changed with my WP yesterday. Anyway, back to normal. Why am I whispering? Oh, cause you were. Thanks for dropping a line in all the hoopla last night. Tess
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May 5, 2012 at 8:47 am
I don’t have a blog, I am just a follower and commenter. Yes this just started with me also. Evan though I have not checked the follow up box. mmmmm
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May 5, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Hi Mary, many thanks for commenting even though you don’t have a blog. Finally all the excitement has died down. I had 300 e-mails this morning. OUCH.
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May 5, 2012 at 9:30 am
Yes…I thought it was just me. My inbox has been bombarded by comments left on other people’s blogs!
I was able to stop it by clicking on modify subscription options… once inside you’ll see what to do.
I have more than enough to handle with my own blog 🙂
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May 5, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Yep, you’re right. Once I found modify subscriptions (This morning), I DID know what to do after your e-mail. Thanks Maggie. Back to normal. Whew. This morning I had 300 more e-mails even as I kept getting rid of excess.
Thanks for being a calm adviser.
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May 6, 2012 at 3:57 am
Did you also see, whenever you respond to someones post there is a little window thats checked off below saying: Receive notice to all responses.
I have to uncheck that each time now.
I don’t know how people can keep up with everything!
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May 5, 2012 at 10:29 am
Trying the easy fix first!
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May 5, 2012 at 9:28 pm
I found the easy fix but clicked the box with some trepidation. Seems things are OK. I was afraid ALL e-mails would be blocked. At least the big excitement is over. I need a rest now. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it, Sylvia. Tess
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May 5, 2012 at 2:11 pm
WordPress most certainly has had poltergeists over the past several days. CRAZY things happening like one of MY comments in reply to a comment on MY blog was tagged as spam! Now why would I spam myself! I’m glad you posted about this issue. The WordPress Forum is lit up!
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May 6, 2012 at 5:15 pm
Really? This comment of yours I’m responding to decided to spam itself into my spam. I have a lot LESS e-mails today too. Now I wonder AGAIN what might this be a sign of but everybody’s probably pooped out over the recent fiasco and lying low. Time will tell.
Glad to see you survived the avalanche. That’s what it felt like to me.
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May 5, 2012 at 11:13 pm
I was having this problem last night and early today but it seems to have righted itself. What I shock when I saw all those emails though. I thought oh dear what have I done this time…
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May 5, 2012 at 11:19 pm
Isn’t that awful, how we blame ourselves? I did it and a couple of commenters said the same thing: What have I done? I still have to click the button in ‘subscriptions’ this morning before thing got back to normal. When I juiced up my PC this morning, I had 300 excess comments after cleaning out as many as I could last night before falling into bed—exhasted. Glad everythings OK. Does that mean you didn’t have to do anything yourself to stop the problem? I’d like to know. This could be interesting. . . Tess
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May 6, 2012 at 3:54 am
Something weird happened. I was getting repeats of old comments, but it seems to be ok now.
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May 6, 2012 at 4:54 pm
I finally went to bed after 10:30 or so. Got a headache from all the hoopla. Seems OK today but a lot less e-mails. Hope most people didn’t turn OFF their subscribers. I say that because it’s an awfully quiet day in the INbox. Time will tell. Thanks for sharing in all that to-do the other night. Tess
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May 6, 2012 at 7:07 am
It seems as if WP has changed the notification settings.
This blogging buddy of mine has the answer…
http://sarchasm2.wordpress.com/
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May 6, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Thanks Ghia. There are some things I can click on and some I cannot. When I go to the READER area in manage your blogs. Nothing is clickable except for Stats. I did click for no followups when I received a LIKE e-mail from someone and it had a manage your e-mail or something. That took me to all the blogs I am following and there was a clickable box at the upper left-hand corner. Seems to have done the trick but surprisingly, very few e-mails today. That’s OK. I can wait and see. Thanks for helping. I appreciate your time during the fiasco last night on WP. Tess
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May 6, 2012 at 4:54 pm
WordPress has added a tick to ” notify me to comments ” you now have to un-tick it. Which i just did 🙂
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May 7, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Great.
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May 6, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Anyone else having trouble leaving comments today?
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May 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Not sure. I sent some out and received a response to the comments. Inbox is quiet. Must be overworked from recent party. How about YOU?
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May 6, 2012 at 5:59 pm
While on a blog directly, I’ll type a comment, hit post, and it goes poof! I think it is ending up in their spam folder.
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May 16, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Another Un-spammed by letscutthecrap. There were two in my Spam. I don’t usually check it on a regular basis but I will now. You’re OUT of JAIL! How’s it feel? At least in my neck of the woods?
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May 6, 2012 at 6:05 pm
I realized I didn’t really answer your question. Yes, inbox is quiet.
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May 16, 2012 at 11:41 pm
FABULOUS. Now I see a thing on your comment that says (Yay): Un-spammed by letscutthecrap
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May 6, 2012 at 7:33 pm
I haven’t read all of the above comments, but it IS difficult to readjust your notification settings. It needs to be a little more obvious.
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May 6, 2012 at 8:05 pm
As far as I can see in my neck of the woods, EVERYthing has changed. Things were missing on my home blog page and as soon as I changed one thing EVERYthing from before was expunged. Now I’m feeling my way around in the dark (I’m not that techie) but then WordPress does not EXPLAIN all the widgets one by one and I don’t want to screw things up for me yet again. If you go to the bottom of your Dashboard page to WordPress Tutorials. There are lots of bloggers complaining. Seems they thing this was a BUG. Why isn’w WordPress sending out a newsletter? About SOMEthing: bug or not; update or not; what then? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stop-email-notifications-for-comments-on-other-peoples-blogs?replies=73 Anyway, my page is starting to look a little different. One thing I don’t like that’s disappeared (at least I can’t find it) is the blog roll on the main page. Are you and you blogsite doing OK, though? Tess
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May 7, 2012 at 12:21 pm
You are so right, Rebecca.I’ve wasted all kinds of time trying to do the RIGHT things. I’ve also noticed neither you nor I have the two little check boxes below the comment box of which many others have mentioned. I’m not too techie, I must admit. Something changed on my site home page so I decided to checkout the widgets. Now it looks different again, but I’ve no idea which one gives you the boxes in question.
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May 7, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Now mine is messed up. I’m now receiving emails for follow up comments, which I hadn’t originally! Grr.
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May 6, 2012 at 9:43 pm
I haven’t notice anything like this, but I am guessing the key is in the little box that says “notify me of follow-up comments”
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May 7, 2012 at 12:17 pm
I don’t have those two little check boxes beneath my comment box on my site. Hmmm. Thanks Derek.
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May 7, 2012 at 4:29 am
YES. It’s good in one way – I can see when people respond to my comments so I can respond back. In another way – yes, HELP! But Dotty Headbanger has a solution to this – go to her site and have a look!
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May 7, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Everythings screwed up. I’ve received exactly six e-mails since the weekend. It’s a strange feeling. Must just wait to see what happens. Also, I never had the two little boxes below the comment box—at least I don’t now. Thanks for the information from Dotty.
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May 7, 2012 at 5:11 am
Very annoying. I keep forgetting to uncheck the box!
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May 7, 2012 at 11:49 am
A real headache, I agree.
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May 7, 2012 at 11:16 pm
I check the first couple to see if it is a reply to me and then delete the rest. If you sign up to recieve a reply you recieve everything others post too. They should just let you see when the person replies to you, at least as one option!
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May 7, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Yes, the little box under Comments that says “Notify me of follow-up comments via email” appears on this/your post. There is also one that says “Notify me of new posts via email.” I checked the latter and unchecked the former. Does this make sense?
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May 11, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Hi Dor. Because you are subscribed to my posts, you don’t want to check either of those boxes. Just leave blank when you comment. However, should you notice that there’s a check in either when you comment, do let me know.
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May 11, 2012 at 6:33 pm
O.K. Tess… I think I’m getting the hang of this. Will let you know about any visible checks when I comment! Thanks for the heads up. Dor
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May 8, 2012 at 9:56 am
I keep forgetting to untick that pesky little box, until it’s too late. Inundated with e-mails. 😉
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May 8, 2012 at 9:57 am
Oh nooooo! I just did it again here. Now I’m going to get all your comments too. ;(
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May 8, 2012 at 11:36 am
Drat. That little box hides when you type in the comment box, which causes it to expland. No worries.
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May 8, 2012 at 9:05 pm
You know….I’ve been on vacation and clearing out 1900 emails. I wondered why I had “a new comment from ____” or whatever it says. I’ve never checked that box! So glad to see your post Tess! Thank you! That solves the mystery.
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May 8, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Woo hoo! It’s been KR-aaaazy on WordPress since the 3rd or 4th.
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May 9, 2012 at 2:03 am
I haven’t checked my e-mail for 4 days. Now I’m afraid to.
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May 10, 2012 at 10:07 am
Things are looking UP. Hope you managed OK after four days away. Have a NICE day.
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May 10, 2012 at 6:30 pm
You cursed me. RIGHT after you posted about all of this mine started acting up. I BLAME you for this ;-). Actually, I think I’m starting to debug the thing….
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May 11, 2012 at 12:55 am
Hope all is well now.
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