being a newbie and I want to be more focused, I checked 4 categories in the ‘watch’ list in the User Preference. BUT, all conversations come to my mail inbox. I did uncheck and even mute these categories, emails still coming every hour and then.
any idea how I could reset my User Preference in this forum ?
watched categories :
cheers
You’ll need to set all the previous topics back to “regular” notification state.
Changing the category notifications preference only affects new topics created in those categories, not existing ones.
@sam do we have a querystring way of showing all the topics people are watching?
Yeah we do its on meta somewhere
thanks codinghorror and sam
FIRST, I uncheck all the ‘mutes’ and I don’t want to kill a kitten 
so I have nothing checked in the ‘watch’, ‘track’ and ‘mute’ in my preference and saved.
I assumed - I would still receive email notification on all existing threads in these 4 ‘watched categories’, until these threads are stopped. yet any new thread in these ‘watched categories’ will not be notified by mail.
before I make another mistake, may I understand that the ‘track’ is a ‘notify once’ on new threads and will not follow the rest of the conversion by notification ? I guess that is good enough for a updating purpose.
thanks and cheers