Alerts Preferences

[ss7]

Is it possible to turn off the generic R2R site sponsored alerts?

The frequency of those updates (that I'm not interested in) render the feature too much of a nuisance to utilize. I only have a couple threads I'd like to stay up to date on...

 

[Humblefish]

Are you referring to the alerts sent out by @revhtree or @mdbannister (the two site admins)?

I don't believe there is any way of disabling those for a specific account, but I have tagged them just in case I am wrong about that.

 

[ss7]

Yes.. those are the "offenders". :)

 

[Humblefish]

Yes.. those are the "offenders". :)

I'll be honest with you, there aren't enough site sponsored alerts to be considered a "nuisance" IMO. But Rev & Daniel will know for sure whether or not those can be disabled.

 

[Crabs McJones]

Click on your name at the top and go to privacy and uncheck this box.

 

[DarkSky]

Click on your name at the top and go to privacy and uncheck this box.

I don't think he means that alert, but the alerts like "Happy Monday! Update your build thread!" type alerts. I too find those rather annoying, and don't see an option to disable them.

 

[Crabs McJones]

I don't think he means that alert, but the alerts like "Happy Monday! Update your build thread!" type alerts. I too find those rather annoying, and don't see an option to disable them.

Ok, I thought they were referring to email alerts. We'll wait for Daniel and Rev to chime in, but I don't believe there is a way to disable them as Humblefish stated above.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

LOL Sorry you find them annoying. I'm not certain of any way to turn those off, but you shouldn't be seeing those very often. At most, I think they go out 3-4 times a week. :-)

 

[DarkSky]

LOL Sorry you find them annoying. I'm not certain of any way to turn those off, but you shouldn't be seeing those very often. At most, I think they go out 3-4 times a week. :)

That's still a fair bit. With everything else clamoring for our attention, it is very useful to be able to tweak the amount of alerts I get from a platform. Just now we got an email alert from Rev because he sent us all a PM. I can turn those off, but then I can't see when someone is actually starting a conversation with me, rather than sending a message to everyone on the site.

I've uninstalled phone apps that had one alert a week that I couldn't disable. Obviously you're trying to drive engagement to R2R, but constantly being bombarded with alerts to take action will drive some people away.