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It'd be nice if this crap were put into the edit author's page. I couldn't find it. I had to go to the stupid email I received about my messages and crap just to get to the link to stop these emails. Please, make this easier to find that way it's not CLUTTERING up my email box. Thank you.
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On your My account page, right below '•Edit author or display info' is the '•Edit email and notification settings'
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My other hope was that if you saw the email and were pissed about it, you'd just click the link at the bottom of it, since you'd already be there and irritated with it.
I know this email "feature" will piss some people off and they'll want to disable it. I also feel that it's important for us, and could really help improve the community. I do want to work with those of you who want to easily disable it.
We've been beta-testing this with moderators and greeters over the last 2 months to hopefully get all the kinks out before making the system live.
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How can we disable our poems being emailed out, if this is truly happening? I have disabled the feature to receive emails, so I had no clue until today that we could receive poems of our favorites via email. I really don't want my poems emailed out to anyone, even if they have me as a favorite or visa versa.
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Hi,
Despite following every AP suggested proceedure to STOP recieving emailed notifications.... still they arrive. My preferences (which I have UNchecked several times) repeatedly seem to automatically revert back to being checked.
This being the case do these continuing emails now equate to unsolicited, illegal spam?
Being that the link at the bottom of these emails is broken and does NOT work and does not allow me unsubscribe... is this not a breach of electronic media and communication law?
Please take the time to advise us on why this is happening and what ever REALLY needs to be done by a member to prevent it. If the answer is instructions of how to close my AP account.. and that is the only 100% safe way... please provide such information urgently.
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Dear Kevin:
I asked very politely years ago to be deleted from your site. Since you could not do that, I have simply left. I do not appreciate being spammed by your updated feature to my e-mail, nor do I appreciate being automatically logged into your site when I tried to turn off the spamming.
Please delete this intrusive feature.
This is my nice request.
Peace. :-)
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Hello, Passionvine. While I presume to never see you again I just wanted to say...
I miss you!
and add my voice of wonder at why Kevin refuses to delete those who wish deletion! Seems ridiculous not ever to be allowed to leave this twilight zone of poems and plumes and macaroons!
Be well, excellent Poet!
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Dear Kevvers
By you own admission “I knew I would piss some people off” you were by your own definition trolling on this website. Shouldn’t one of your moderating police be banning you about now?
Peace. :-)
PV
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I clicked the message on my email and got an Error Message 404 - Lost File! But went to my page and reset anyway.
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I disabled it yesterday and got another notification today. Please. I do not need or want this spam, especially as there is no way I can delete an account here like I can at Facebook.
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I don't mind getting notification of notes in my email. Don't like getting peoples poems emailed to me though. Don't want my poems getting emailed to others either. Our poems floating all over hell's half acre all willy nilly and shit! I'm surprised more people aren't up in arms. When I add a poem I don't want it emailed to everyone on my favorites list or emailed to anyone, I just want it left plunked on my page. Please.
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Oh, my. I didn't know about this. *gets up in arms*
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I didn't notice that feature, and that's completely retarded.
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People who you don't really know you but who consider you a favorite/friend
are picking through the bones of your freshly posted poem just as we speak.
In the confines of their private email box, your poems are being molested
greedily eyed or worse yet even...deleted harshly and in disgust at the affront of having them there in the first place unasked for! Retarded may be a politically incorrect understatement!
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I'm wondering about if they are in the "noguest" category, are they being mailed out? I had a friend forward to me what my poem looks like when it gets emailed to her today - and it made me wonder what happens if you go back in and edit a poem after posting it, even for typos. Which poem gets mailed?
And again, if it is in "noguest", is it safe from being mailed? They seem to be getting emailed "randomly" because she didn't receive other poems of mine and she only received one other by a favorite and that was a while ago.
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Yes, Amaranthine Lover, the "noguest" poems can be emailed to others. You would think not, since presumably people are keeping those shielded from the public. Don't worry, I deleted "Bastille" from my email just now; just wanted to know how that works.
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*is now totally freaked out*
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Maybe Kevin can just start randomly emailing all our poems out to literary magazines. You could be our agent, Kevin!
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I don't remember the poll asking us if we thought these notifications would be a good idea.
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Yes, there will be an option in the near future to disable your poems from being emailed out.
Noguest - might make sense in addition, though if they're getting the email then they're a registered member, not a guest. So it doesn't really seem like the spirit.
As to polls - it wasn't an optional thing, though I did solicit suggestions a few times.
With the users who are getting emails after opting out, I suspect its just a delay feature of how email can take awhile to get there, but I'm working with them to be sure and fix any bug if one exists.
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emails can be forwarded to non-members, and furthermore, just because I'm a member, it doesn't mean I should be able to forward someone's "noguest" designated poem to anyone I want to, which is what I can currently do.
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I'm talking about the ability to email poems in general, that exists in the options drop down menu on the right side. I want to be able to disable that so that no one can email my poems if I don't want them to. We are not even notified that our poems are being emailed, though I noticed on the poems you might like page that those popular poems have a how many times they have been shared number.
Certainly, anyone's "noguest" poems should never be emailed out and people may want to destroy poems after having them up for a while or a few days, not have them floating around. I just feel like this is really an invasion to find out they are being not only automatically emailed but being emailed by others without author consent. -
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Ea ... I am late to this thread. Are you saying that our poems are being e-mailed without our knowing it? To whom are they being sent? When are they being sent?
This doesn't seem right......
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The shared number isn't that it's how many people like you liked that poem.
The 'opt out' of emailing poems for new poem notifications will affect that email ability too, thanks for the suggestion.
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You've opened the barn door before allowing those of us in our individual stables to rein in our horses so they don't bolt for sunlight unprepared! Yikes man. I don't want my poems emailed to anybody without my express permission. Yes it's your site but I don't want a rash of my poems infecting every poor soul who happens to have put me on their friends/favorites list!
I feel half naked and exposed here, caught with my skivvies down! It's one thing for someone who visits my page to perhaps copy a poem they happened to like, but sheesh not this hit and miss in your face poem in your mailbox drive-by! Kevin what were you thinking! POEM SPAMMER!
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I protest!
Twice email has arrived concerning material intended ONLY for this site. It is intrusive, not welcome, and a waste of time. -
I got notification of a new posting, but I though it was just that: notification; I really did not realize that the actual poem was e-mailed to me. I, also, am not in favour of my stuff floating around in cyberspace where I did not put it. Like anything else, one it is out there, it is beyond retrieving. This is not something that is desirable.
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Okay, I opted out receiving notifications, but how do I prevent my poems from being e-mailed out? I think that is the big issue here.
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Apparently Kevin is working on it, an opt out feature, in the near future! So for the time being we lump it. *grizzles*
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The alternative is to drop all of my friends; that is something I do not want to do. Or worse, delete everything we have posted.
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Yeah, dropping all friends and faves might be a quick fix for now. Except I don't think you can drop yourself from the Favorites/friends of others can you?
Or just don't post any poems until we know it's safe!
One doesn't need to delete everything they've posted though because I think it will only be the new ones we post from now on that may be randomly sent! So don't go deleting missy!
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Yeah, I had not thought of the aspect of our previously posted poems. How do we enter contests if we do not post? This has far reaching ramifications.
Here is a suggestion, Kevin. I belong to a couple of sites that notify me if someone adds to their stories, also if someone replies to a post I have made in the forums. The actual post is not sent, but a link where I can find the pertinent post. Could you not do that? I admit that I like getting the notice someone has posted a new poem, I just do not want to see the actual poem.
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Yes. Your best bet would be to delete all of your favorites. That is what I have done so that not even the web designer’s ineptness can subject you to e-mail spam.
Better yet, you could delete everything here and post your poetry on a self created blog. There are plenty of social interaction sites if what you really desire is an online community.
That the host of this web site creates an intrusive feature that an individual has to opt out of rather than create a new feature that an individual could if he or she chose opt into reveals how ethically bankrupt the host is. This is not a poetry site. It is Facebook Lite with a gaudy neon poetry sign over the door.
Peace. :-)
PV
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Yeah, I am thinking there is a more reasonable way to handle this. I am trying the polite route. And, it is my understanding that if you delete all of your stuff and are inactive for a time, you will be dropped. You could, of course, change the e-mail address that you list here and then you will not get any more notifications. You could basically put the site on ignore. Would that not benefit all?
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I don't want my poems emailed out. If the feature cannot be easily disabled I will stop posting.
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Create a folder in your own computer and save all new poems there.
Avoid posting them in contests, or making available online.
Result, safety.
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Why not just go to "My Account", and look under "personal Information". Then click on "Edit Email and notification preferences".
Every option your heart desires is available right there.
Why is this messing with so many people's heads? (it may have had some problems at the beginning, but it seems to be working just fine, now. Easy as pie.
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Just go to "My Account", and look under "personal Information". Then click on "Edit Email and notification preferences".
Every option your heart desires is available right there.
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