why, when it is set to email on post NO is the checkbox defaulted to YES? I'm tired of having to kill ebots because the script can't remember to default no. so blacklisted ebot@renderosity.com and now not going to bother unchecking so that ebot gets lots of bounced messages.

I have often been a little aggravated at the default being checked for "Email me when someone replies". It's so easy to just hit the reply button before one remembers to uncheck it if needed. I strongly feel that the default should not be checked at all and then let the poster do the checking themselves as to whether they want to get the ebots or not. Gosh it's getting late here and I'm brain-dead. Sure hope I made sense here. lol

Hi Jaqui, The two settings are actually for two different things :-) The setting at the top of the forum is for notifications for anyone posting on that forum. For example, if you set "Email on post" to "yes" on this Community Centre forum, you would receive an email every time someone made a new post in here. You do need to manually uncheck the "Email me when someone replies" bit in every post, if you don't want a horde of ebots on every hot topic you post in ;-) I will ask admin about the possibilities of leaving ebot replies off by default.

You do need to manually uncheck the "Email me when someone replies" bit in every post, if you don't want a horde of ebots on every hot topic you post in ;-) That's a very silly default. Yes, please do ask if they can change it. Being bombarded by ebots should be optional, not default. ;-) bonni

that's my point, and why I blacklisted the ebot email addy

Exactly, Bonni. I agree with you 100%. This has always been a bugaboo for me and extremely annoying. :(

I'd also like to add a request for being able to opt out of a thread. atm there is no reliable way to do this. once i've finished with a thread (or the thread has just gone nowhere) I don't want to get Ebots for it. other board software offer this function... so?

so if we all blacklist ebot@renderosity.com and they start getting thousands of bounced ebot messages then it might show exactly how wastefull of thier data transfer defaulting ebot on is. and we don't see ebot messages. ~grin~

it's a simple change in one line of one script. the one that defines the repply area, change default to no on the box. since the script is not duplicated phsically in every forum.

I don't want to 'blacklist' my ebots, Jaqui..I have a gallery that I upload to regularily and would like to receive notification when I get a comment. It's just the Forum I have a prob with and it could be simply solved. :)

yup it can be. but seems like the ptb don't want to be fixing it.

Karen said: "I will ask admin about the possibilities of leaving ebot replies off by default." ...so lets keep our fingers crossed. :)

It's been asked for many times and hasn't been implimented yet. Don't hold your breath.

Well, it took months of active complaints and a public poll before they'd fix the graphical links on the top menu, so... shrug bonni

Just wanted to follow up and let you all know we discussed setting the default setting on receiving ebots on new posts to "No". We will set up a community poll to find out if this is something a majority of members would like. If it is, then we will impliment this request. (Yes, another poll ;-) Thanks, Lillian

Thank you, Lillian. I sure appreciate your efforts in this matter. :)

well it definately is a start. but I'm not gonna remove ebot from the blacklist.