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Does Woot have email notifications for comment replies?

Nov 30, 2011 9:04 PM

Whether it's a forum question or a Woot deal, I realize that one can subscribe to email notifications whenever someone posts a comment, but is there way to only receive these if it's a direct reply to you? I don't want to subscribe to every comment section that I post in, but I also want to know if someone posts a direct reply to one of my comments in there... Is this something that Woot needs to add?

tossthedice tossthedice

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@tossthedice: Does this answer your question..?

professore professore
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@professore: No...?

tossthedice tossthedice
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Go to https://account.woot.com/ and select "mentions?" under deals.woot, which will let you know when others mention you in comments. Then, you should get an email if someone uses @tossthedice (as @professore did :P).

cityonthesea cityonthesea
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@cityonthesea: Hahahahaha yes. The joke's on me, I thought it was on by default and @tossthedice would get an email about it.

professore professore
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@cityonthesea: Woohoo! Many thanks XD

tossthedice tossthedice
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@tossthedice: hello. testing 1, 2

w00tgurl w00tgurl
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@w00tgurl: Reading you loud and clear, over.

tossthedice tossthedice
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See how funny that would have been?

professore professore
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@professore: lol - I was wondering if anybody else noticed what you were getting at. That had to confuse (or irritate the hell out of) @tossthedice heh..

..Actually, one second.. He SHOULD have actually gotten an e-mail when you posted that comment - since your comment was a reply to a question that he asked. :D. BAM.

drchops drchops
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if someone mentions me by using @ in front of my username, i get an email that says "_ _ _ mentioned you on Deals.Woot", even if i already have the option checked to email me if someone comments.
if i'm not mentioned using the @ sign for my username, and i chose to get emails if someone comments, the email i get is this instead "_ _ _ commented on a Question on Deals.Woot"

so if after changing the settings in the account page, there's a way to test if you're getting the emails for replies or just for subscribing to thread comments. depends on the email wording at the top

w00tgurl w00tgurl

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