You want to be notified (via email) when other members comment on your articles or images. However, you don't want, or need, to be notified when you comment on your own articles.
Problem #2:
Email notifications from Gather appear in your inbox with no organization or order, sometimes arriving en masse, or scattered amongst other email messages. This can easily clog up your inbox, making it more difficult to notice other messages of importance.
Solution:
Use 'filtering', or 'sorting' options within your primary email program. Most email providers have the ability to perform certain actions on each email you receive. These options are set by you, and you have the capability to make them as simple, or complex as you may like.
As a personal example:
I never see notifications from Gather informing me that I have commented on my own articles.
All email from Gather bypasses my primary inbox, and is automatically placed into individual folders, based upon the 'type' of message.
I have created individual email 'folders' for:
- Each of my groups (so all notifications for group activity are in one place).
- Content or membership requiring approval (keeping all 'to-do' type tasks in the same location).
- Each of my recent articles (allowing me to quickly identify any new activity, and for which article [or image]).
- Official Gather announcements or notifications.
Of course, this level of complexity is beneficial, but not necessary. You may easily tailor your own filters to accommodate your individual requirements.
You may wish to start out with only one central folder for all of your Gather mail, and eliminating notifications of your own comments or activity.
Instructions
Each email provider is unique, and will have differing capabilities. Therefore, exact instructions cannot be provided.
1) Within your primary email program, look for an 'Options', 'Mail Options', 'Settings', or 'Create a Filter' link or button.
2) Under this link, there may be a provision for 'filtering' (might be combined with 'Junk Mail' filtering, although is typically separate).
3) Identify the options you are provided for filtering upon (From, To, Subject, Has the Words, Doesn't Have, etc.).
4) Then, review your individual Gather email notifications and determine which 'fields' and the content of those fields, you will use for filtering. Pay particular attention to the 'Subject' field, as it is this field which will contain unique identifiers you will use to 'sort' your email, and determine specific actions through filtering.
As examples,
To place all email from Gather into one folder, or label, you will 'filter' all email received from gather.com. Therefore, you would place gather.com into the 'From' filter field. Then, instruct your email program on what to do with all messages meeting this criteria (place into a folder, assign a label, forward it to another email address, or put in the trash, etc.).
To eliminate all notifications of your comments on your own articles (as well as any other activity of yours), you will filter all email from gather.com again (as outlined in the example above), but add a filter on the 'Subject' field. Thus, you would place gather.com into the 'From' filter field, and your Gather 'display name' into the 'Subject' field. Then, identify what your email program should do with these messages (also as identified in the example above).
Using these same techniques, you can sort your Gather email notifications into any number of organizational possibilities...!
Note: Some email programs limit the number of filters you may create.
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Comments: 12
Now my only problem is those comments from me.... which I just delete without reading since my gather name appears in the subject line.
You can easily direct those emails to be placed automatically in your email 'trash' or 'wastebasket'!
For example, all email from Gather identifying that I have commented on my own content is immediately deleted without ever hitting my inbox...this makes Gathering much more organized and a lot less cluttered!