Iâve just received an email from this site:
Hey there. We see youâve been busy reading, which is fantastic, so weâve promoted you up a trust level!
Weâre really glad youâre spending time with us and weâd love to know more about you. Take a moment to fill out your profile, or feel free to start a new topic.
Can I just say that this is functionality which i donât want & had no idea I had requested it.
This is a notification from the discourse system because you have enabled email notifications to new private messages.
The trust system is a functionality and the system is notifying you that your users had a change in the trust level.
You can enable âSkip new user onboarding tips and badgesâ on your Preferences - Interface if you want to opt-out.
I suspect I will not be alone in not wanting this type of notification: the proposition is that we are transitioning the forum & help sites to discourse rather than creating a new experience.
I would therefore review the default settings for things like this rather than using out-of-the-box values.
Look there are many sorts of notifications we could argue about but I really donât think a notification that youâre been promoted a level and now have new powers is unreasonable and thatâs speaking as somebody that has turned off many of the default notifications.
It would be pretty evil not to tell people when they get new powers I would have thought - is it even possible to turn those off?
In any case any defaults should be tuned to the typical user, not to curmudgeons like you and me.
You are correct. See this topic for more discussion:
I understand that, but this forum is also much more welcoming for newcomers compared to the old forum, and we need newcomers !
As a veteran, we can switch off these. I did, maybe because Iâm also a Discourse veteran.
Thatâs fine, but from my point of view there is no obligation to treat newcomers like children ⊠
As this issue has been addressed more than once in this fresh place apparently many users dropping in from the old forum feel the same about this flood of notoficatons and messages.
Probably it would be a good idea to include a short info into the greeting message from discobot, telling every new user that Discourse is very communicative and it that would be wise to check the user settings immediately and to switch off all unwanted notifications and mail messages. This surely would help to avoid this issue to be addressed repeatedly in further topics.
I diligently worked through the profile and I really tried to disable all the notications and mail settings.
The only things still active are:
Nothing else.
I am still getting annoying Spam from Discobot. Today two incredibly important mails
Is there a way to stop that automated Spam? I have run out of checkmarks to remove.
The link âclick here to remove this sort of mailâ leads me to a screen where I can stop following a topic which I never followed, so I guess clicking on that will not protect me from the spam for the next discobot level.
Or do I need to disable private notifications completely? But that will not only silence discobot spam but also meaningful attempts from other users to contact me.
And if I try to look at it from the opposite perspective, pretending that I like the mails or appreciate the offer of an advanced tutorial, the mails still remain pretty much useless: They suggest an archaic and complicated maling list mechanism: âAnswer to this mail with the following textâ.
Instead of giving the user a simple link leading to the tutorial. That is a very strange interpretation of a âmodernâ communication software.