Please don’t click

I had a strange message yesterday that worried me. Someone keeps getting notifications about my posts in their email and it’s irritating them. I don’t know them and am not sending them emails so it must be notifications from WordPress about my posts?

I know I sometimes write quite a few posts a day. My mind jumps about and I like putting my thoughts down, but I guess that might get on peoples nerves. If it does I apologise.

The only thing I could do was check if I was following the person (I’m not, and don’t think I’ve seen their blog). Then I thought, they don’t have to follow me. I’m not after lots of followers, it’s too much responsibility. So I suggested they unfollow me.

Finally you can click on some blogs to receive email notifications everytime someone posts. I used to do that when I started here. I’ve now limited it and unclicked notifications because my email inbox was getting too full. I was literally getting hundreds of emails on some days.

So, I think just follow who you like, but don’t expect them to follow back. Some people will instantly become friends, others acquaintances, and some you will be irritated by or they will be irritated by you. Its all depends on your personalities. Just enjoy x

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12 thoughts on “Please don’t click”

  1. Hi! I’ve also been trying to find a way to stop emails from going out to people when I post.
    If you’re on WordPress.org I think there’s a plug-in that’ll let you do that.
    But if you’re on WordPress.com (like I am) then there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way. Here’s a an answer to the question, from Support: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/turn-off-emails-after-publishing/

    I’m going to keep looking but that’s probably the answer.
    🙂

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    2. I think,,,,

      Ask them to try this,,,

      go to the 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲
      https://wordpress.com/read/subscriptions
      and scroll down to 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴.

      on the right of that row, tap the 3dot menu ‘…’
      That should give various buttons to set:

      – 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 me of new posts(presume that’s within the WordPress page)
      -Receive web and mobile notifications for new posts from this site.
      – 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 : Instantly\Daily\Weekly
      turn off or set to 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆
      – Email me new comments
      – 𝗨𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲

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      3. Hi! Yes, subscribers can choose whether or not to receive the emails (as shown in the comment). I never get any from anyone I follow, by choice. But WordPress generates the emails & sends to all those subscribers who don’t use the setting above. Subscribers can control what they receive. But authors can’t stop the email from being sent (at least on WordPress.com). I think that many subscribers aren’t aware of their notifications options, tbh.
        One other thing: we’re automatically subscribed to our own sites, which is why it may seem like that setting would stop the email from going out. But all it stops is our receipt of it.
        I know some frequent bloggers who use excerpts – another setting – bec the resulting email is just a snippet. I don’t know anyone who’s tried the “temporarily going private” approach (as mentioned in the Support link).
        🙂

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    1. P.S. I get NO email notifications. As for that reader? No loss to me. Whatever her trip was, I didn’t need a long comment thread about how I was giving her “poor customer service.” What was I selling that made her a customer? People can be very very very strange and we never know what has gotten under their skin that has nothing at all to do with us.

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