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He probably doesn't get 10's of millions of page views a month, once you've past that point it's hard to get a warm fuzzy feeling by a few members (that dont see ads) revisiting the site to read a thread.
E-Mail Notification wording: What possible benefit can this serve?
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New #14
They don't get no higher than me here and the only thing that gets me warm an fuzzy is courvoisier vsop.
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New #16
You're going to get an email that there is a reply, and not only assume the reply quoted is the ultimate answer, but not bother to log in and thank that poster? A Guy
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New #17
Interesting the thought processes of people. Yeah I wouldn't want every post to be emailed to me. That would seriously irritate me cluttering up my inbox. Is the OP only looking at this through his one thread. There of thousands of threads here. That's a lot of email that's really unnecessary. I always understood that the single email response was a courtesy to let you know of activity to a thread you subscribed to.
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New #18
My sentiments exactly.
Another thing to remember (talking to the Thread Starter here) is that there are some threads which get many posts each day and go on for months or even years. The notice is a reminder that you can't just delete the email because you are busy right at the moment and expect to get another reminder down the road that there are new posts.
If you don't like getting the email notice you can always turn it off and just check your User CP to see updated threads.
I've been involved in other forums which would just send a plain notice that there was a new reply - it did not include the text of the actual reply. If SevenForums wanted to drive traffic to the site they would do it that way. (On a side note, how many new people here get a response to a question about a problem they are having, read the email with instructions for fixing it, rush off to do that, then never come back to say if it worked or not?)
Some people do exactly that. (You know who you are.) After all, the volunteers here are amply rewarded by that big fat bonus check we get at the end of each month, right?
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New #19
A worthy point
I was more thinking that if I neglected to check back in for a first response then all would be silent while the dialog continues. I do try to make it a point to check back in to thank, check as helpful or check as answered where it applies.
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