In my profile, the lists of ‘watched’ and ‘tracked’ categories are empty. Automatic tracking of topics I enter is set to never. ‘When posting’ to ‘Do nothing’.
The checkbox ‘Activity Summary’ which enables sending random ‘popular’ topics cannot be unchecked. The audacity! The most I can do is set it to once a half a year, but currently it is set to weekly, and I get several emails almost every day, so I have zero trust in this. Most of these I have never seen before, never even clicked on the link.
I have accidentally logged in here with a different github account, because on the ones I’ve used here previously, I was forced to blacklist all mail from scala-lang.org and mark it is a spam wholesale. Seriously, this is the most scummy site I have visited in about a decade. What the F, guys? You have worse respect for privacy than literal porn sites.
Odd – this is a completely ordinary Discourse site, using standard open-source software. I didn’t even think it was possible to get those emails by accident.
But it sounds like you somehow wound up in mailing list mode. Go to your email settings (click your userpic in the upper-right, choose “Profile” – the bottom icon on that list – choose “Preferences” and then “Emails” from there), and turn off “Enable mailing list mode”.
Hi you need to disable the mailing list mode right below the option you are talking about. It overwrites the other setting. After that you can uncheck the upper checkbox
Thank you! We shall see. I created the account by linking it to github, and these are the default settings, as I had the same problem before with other accounts - so it’s not the question of me enabling something by mistake. It would be great if it weren’t enabled by default, as it really leaves a bad impression - but maybe other account types are do not have this issue.
