Just as the title says. Notifications are being sent for every single comment - not just replies to the comment that the 'requesting' user has made. Isn't the 'follow-up' part of the 'Notify me of follow-up comments posted here' supposed to imply that you'll be notified of replies to YOUR post.

Is this by design or am I experiencing a bug? As a user this is certainly not what I would expect. If it is by design then maybe this should be changed to a feature request.

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greggles
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Title: Notifications being sent for all node comments not just replies » Optionally only send notifications for responses to my comment
Category: bug » feature

I think this is currently by design, but I do understand the desire you express.

There are two problems I can see:

1) Lots of users just reply to the node, not the thread, so users may not get a response that is in reply to them but posted in the wrong place.

2) On sites where nested commenting is disabled this no longer makes sense.

Given those two things I think this should be an option.

Also, I don't personally have a use for this so I don't plan on working on it, but I would commit a patch for it.

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dejbar commented

Yep I see what you mean about sites that don't use nested commenting. It wouldn't make sense for them. I've managed to code the changes to make it make it work the way I've described but there is no option to turn it on/off so I'm guessing it isn't worth submitting unless I'm able to do that.

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

I'm marking this as a duplicate of #280502: Send notification only to people who's comments was replied since it has a patch. You may want to subscribe there and perhaps offer a bounty (if you can) to help neochief finish the work.