It is true, I get email notifications like, “Your post was flagged as spam”
Their emailing is spam to me and I asked a pertinent question like, “How can I increase my flow?”, and “Where can I purchase extra space?”
They fail to answer.
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Either you are a masochist or you are just trolling, because while you insisted that “they spam you” “they fail to answer”, you asked in the exact same place that belongs to “them”.
Back to your questions:
- The Hosting Support category is about getting your website up and running, or moving your website somewhere else. It doesn’t care about how well it is running. “Getting more traffic” is not about running, it is about running well. So it doesn’t qualify a Hosting Support topic.
“Getting more space” is a valid question, but you never asked that question before. Even if you asked, then “it’s not possible” is not “fail to answer”, because this forum is apparently not a wishing well and is not like that you can just ask something for it to magically became real. Besides, trying to get empathy this way will not work, which I’ll cover in the next point. - You may see a topic like “20000 forum user celebration”. Yes, there’re 20000+ users on this forum, but most of them come here to ask questions, not answer them. You don’t get another 20000 users to show empathy for you.
The number of users who are actively answering questions is… about 10. That’s right, 10 users, which is why you are highly unable to get different answers by just asking those questions again and again. - As @Jri-Creator just mentioned above, while this forum has some sort of official background, it is run by volunteers. None of the people have any obligation to answer your inquiries. Neither are they guaranteed to have an answer for you to start with.
If none of those 10 people know what you are asking, “they fail to answer”. It’s that simple. - Finally, if you don’t want to get emails, you can turn them off in your preferences.
All in all as the very first paragraph of my reply stated, this is not a good place to ask your “intellectual questions”. We are not free ChatGPTs and even asking real ChatGPT will give you better results.
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I’m going through the list of posts that were flagged for you. Let’s see what happened.
The most recent case of one of your posts being flagged as spam was to this topic, where you posted “She can recovery my data, anytime” with a link to what I can best describe as a 1950’s pinup girl.
Such replies don’t help when someone asks for a legitimate data loss issue, and are at best unhelpful and at worst confusing.
The case before that was when someone asked about their website not working. And you responded with “I can confirm, that address still doesn’t load”, after someone else had already analyzed the specific error returned and provided relevant links.
Again, not helpful.
On that same day, you also responded to another case where someone had trouble downloading their entire website with the file manager. Someone had already responded with information as to why trying to downloading it with the file manager probably would not work and provided an alternative.
And then you came along and just responded “I agree, make the file size smaller”, which is both not something you can “just do” given the circumstances, and so short that it’s unhelpful even if the premise were correct.
Going through the other flagged posts, we can see:
- Asking for help on configuring a Debian server in the Hosting Support category of this forum, despite this having nothing to do at all with our hosting. Both as a standalone post and in response to a completely unrelated support request.
- Asking “what is trustpilot” and “how is trustpilot related to copilot”, which you could have easily answered yourself had you taken 20 seconds with a search engine.
- A LMGTFY link in response to a support topic. Which I now see is quite ironic given the point above.
- Making a remark about drying lederhosen. Again in response to an actual support topic.
- Various topics about band musicians which I’ve never heard of and nobody else seems to care about either.
So I’m not sure what exactly you consider to be “intellectual questions”. Because what I see are very few questions in the first place, and many of your posts being unhelpful at best and nonsensical at worst.
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As for my questions, the last reply given to me was kind of the end so I didn’t reply back. I only asked here because it is a hosting site and I thought maybe someone might have encountered the same thing I was seeking. Second, I don’t treat helping people like delivering a pizza or a cashier ringing up groceries. It’s ok to have two or more people give their input, not just 1 person. Sometimes when I think there are other solutions on something I am not too familiar with, I will wait and see if someone else chimes in. If you are active in a community you know who are the regulars and what they are strong in. If I comment on something and get an email, “Someone just replied to a thread you made a comment in.” it tells me just that, and I can “bookmark” the thread this way. I am from the chess.com group and on their forums they have a “follow” option. I see no such follow option here (see picture below). So, I post a short comment “for” or “against” as just a personal note to myself to jog my memory later (sometimes people reply years later and I have no idea what I was thinking). This is a way to mark the posts I want to be kept abreast of. Here is a screenshot below of what I am talking about. There is a Follow checkbox in the lower right. You guys might want to add that.
This is the InfinityFree Free Hosting forum, not The Stack Exchange. Some of the questions you asked aren’t relevant to this forum, this community.
Despite my activity (evident by my “Regular” tag), I still don’t know the strengths and weaknesses of the other forum members.
We do offer an option to control what you would like to receive.
So you don’t have to do this:
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Ok, but it is a little confusing. With the bell, it states “You will be notified if someone mentions your @name or replies to you.” How do they reply to me if they don’t see an initial post? If I go the bookmark route, where do I find these bookmarks? Sometimes when I am researching something I will just bookmark through my browser, and then I can sync to other devices. This is why I chose not to bookmark internally. I might not be logged in on whatever additional device I am using just to read a thread. However, if I post or were able to “follow” I would get an email notice of a reply regardless if I post or not. Are you saying if we bookmark something we will also get an email notification? It appeared we needed a reply in either case.
If you don’t make a Topic/Comment, then you will only see notifications when your Username (@progrockfrog) is mentioned.
Please refer to pictures below:
I don’t think this is the case (for me at least). I think you can set a reminder for bookmarks, but I have not used this feature.
Please refer to the available options:
Watching = Every reply in the topic (to you and not to you) will notify you, both with a forum message and a e-mail.
Tracking = The forum will tell you how many replies are in the topic. The forum will send an e-mail if someone is replying to a comment you made (if you made one) or if someone mentioned your Username.
Normal = The forum will not tell you how many replies are in the topic. However, The forum will send an e-mail if someone is replying to a comment you made (if you made one) or if someone mentioned your Username.
Muted = Regardless of activity or mentions, you will not receive any notice from the topic.
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“I don’t think this is the case (for me at least). I think you can set a reminder for bookmarks, but I have not used this feature.”
Then, I’m none the wiser I guess. The bookmark idea doesn’t seem to apply here, and when I consider notification via reply, you mention the bookmark and bell option. Youtube has a way around this.
You can still get notifications with “Personalized” I understand, though I admit I select the all notifications because I am subscribing to the content creatior (i.e. Original Poster). This works for Youtube because then I don’t get everyone else’s comments. There is a notifications thing in the upper right but that is where the “only @you” is applied. Best of both worlds I think. I can ignore the notifications area or click it like checking the mail without email notifications on my cell phone. Here on InfinityFree it is a little different. I don’t want to have my cell phone going “ding” all the time like fireworks or popcorn popping. This is where making use of the features that exist I opted for making comments. This way people know I am out there and not incognito hiding. It also generates an email if and only if someone replies to me (I can then read the others when I return to visit “my reply with replies”). If there was an “@you” and “Personalized” option as seen on Youtube, I think this would be a real happy medium. An analogy is when you search for something and they throw out AI or anime cartoon results. What I am looking for are the human replies, not the fake ones. That would be my “Personalized” use that I would grab on to.
So, if the rule is “No posting” and the conclusion is “Bookmarking is not really what I want.” (on the site that is), then I will have to bookmark with the existing browsers I have and then make notes to correspond so I don’t delete or forget.
You’re free to engage with whichever topics you want, but if you are going to reply, please make sure that your messages actually help contribute to the conversation.
Discourse gives you options to configure notifications, but it cannot decide for you which replies are interesting to you. I don’t think that posting dummy replies (as in placeholders, not about your own intelligence) really help solve that problem, because you’re unlikely to get high quality replies to a low quality post.
You can set the topic notification level to “Tracking” so you’ll be notified when someone mentions you or replies to your posts. But again, people only do that when you’re actually posting something they want to reply or or they specifically want to ping you in the message. It doesn’t guarantee you’ll see everything you want to see.
You can also configure whether you get the notifications as browser notifications and/or as emails, and the frequency you get them with. But unfortunately, you cannot configure this for specific notifications for the most part.
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Ok, where is that magical button? So far, we have talked about “bookmarking”, and notification bells. Where is tracking and why can’t we have something on the left (maybe after my messages?) that allows us to come to threads/posts we are interested in? The reason I keep mentioning “follow” is that I can follow the original poster on many other sites, and if there are regulars I can follow specific users instead of getting a ton of notifications in email. When you are deciding between door number 1 and door number 2, voicing which one you want may not be pertinent to those that agree with you (like preaching to the choir) but it gives it that “final checkout” like, "I’m going to go this way, does anyone else disagree? “Speak now or forever hold your peace” kind of thing. It’s not spamming every thread, and it’s not repeatedly doing it day after day in the same thread. It’s, “Will it be the penultimate?” or “Will we end it now.” I thought moderators would like this. Let the week run down, let the topic get closed, and let’s move on to something else if no one disagrees. But I guess the admins disagree. I must think like them. I must pretend I know all. okey-dokey. Unless I have a PhD in something and can provide a dissertation I won’t chime in, even if I want to learn. 
Anyways, you mention a “tracking” feature. Could you tell me where this tracking feature is and how I can designate who and what I want to track? I don’t want to track all or nothing, I want to track specific users and specific threads. My answer was to give a short reply, bread crumb approach to know how to get back. Since you don’t like that, what will EXACTLY replace it?
(Desktop view)
For threads Topics, use the button above.
View may be different for other users
You can find this in someone’s Summary/Bio page.
Normal = If the user replies to you/your posts, quotes your posts (like I did with your post above), or mentions you using your Username tag, you will be notified.
Muted = You will not receive messages user replies to you/your posts, quotes your posts (like I did with your post above), or mentions you using your Username tag. However, you will be able to continue to see that user’s posts on the forum
Ignored = You will not receive messages user replies to you/your posts, quotes your posts (like I did with your post above), or mentions you using your Username tag. You will also not be able to to see that user’s posts on the forum
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Ok, so that is the bell option. How can I make this any more cogently clear?
- Normal - I don’t want this because I am not looking for someone to reply to me.
- Muted - I am not looking to block anyone.
- Ignored - I am not looking to single out anyone’s notifications.
I want to get notifications from the original poster.
Maybe make an “Op” option.
Now, couple that with a “favorites” option.
This means, “If original poster posts and/or favorites is selected make available on left side of forum site.” (perhaps under “My messages” under a plausible title like “interests”)
Also, “If original poster posts, email notification”. I understand this option and this option alone exists, but I am just spelling out what I am trying to do.
By adding an “anchor” to a thread, I can later go back and find it by giving some comment. By stating “I agree” or even “I disagree”, I can then search using the browser ctrl +f option and type “I agree” or “I disagree”. Whammo!!! Instant rise to the top, and I can click on that thread to see if and what anyone commented.
While it doesn’t play a part in conversation, it functionally works for searching and finding data.
This is what you want, select watching here and you’ll get notified whenever something happens in that topic even if no one mentions you
@Jri-Creator This is wrong unfortunately, this is for an entire user, not specific topic or posts.
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I meant, for Topics they want to track, use the button in the above image (the one with the bell, circle highlighting it). Did I misunderstand/provide a misunderstanding? If so, I apologise.
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Well I would say that the layout is a bit unclear. You see that the OP gets confused as well stating that there’re no “Watching” in those three buttons even if you are referrring to the last image
Besides, I’m not trying to be harsh, while OP only asked for how to get notified for a topic, you have also included controls for a user. Not only that, you’ve used much more text explaining that matter instead of the one that OP asked for, which may not be the best choice I’m afraid.
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Since you guys like red arrows, maybe it will work out this way to communicate.
I don’t need an email notice for every reply. I don’t need the popcorn popping dings on my cell phone. I am quite happy and comfortable coming to the site just like I go to the mailbox to check my mail (my physical postal mail). Then I grab it all at one go.
So turn off the email notifications in your preferences like this
Then you’ll just get notifications on the site, no emails
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I have thought a bit about what exactly you’re asking for, and I think that there are a couple of Discourse features that actually get quite close to what you want, even if they don’t work exactly like you expect them to.
Bookmarks are very close to this Favorites thing you’re looking for. That feature lets you mark posts so you can easily find them again later in the Bookmarks menu, allowing you to track them more easily. You were very quick to dismiss the feature before, but reading it again, I can’t really find why you don’t like it. Why doesn’t it work for you?
The New and Unread tabs on the topic overview let you find topics that you may be interested in. The New tab shows all topics that were created since your last visit in the categories you have configured to track by default. The Unread list is populated with topics that you are tracking which have new replies.
Notification preferences let you configure if you get browser push notifications, or email notifications. I too don’t like getting dinged all day, so I have disabled all email notifications from the forum for myself (and disabled phone notifications for emails in general). If you don’t want to get dinged when you’re not checking the forum, then you can just disable that.
Proposed workflow: set the categories you are interested in to Tracking by default. Then, when you login, go through the new topics, and set the topics you are not interested in to a lower notification level. Then next time you login, you can see the Unread list to see only the topics that you are interested in seeing. This way, you can check the forum like checking your mailbox, no constant notifications, just a curated list of threads you care about when you visit.
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How can I make this any easier to comprehend? I DO want email notifications from the original poster and replies to me, but I don’t want a litany of email notifications from other people that are posting things I don’t need to read.