Is there a way of muting categories of notifications in a category?

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The site decided to lump Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and Italy in a category. I follow Italy avidly and want to see all posts and updates but am not going to be interested at all in abt Iberian topics unless and until I decide to travel there. The way my alerts work though, I get an alert every time there is a new Spanish or Portuguese post or topic. The way I have tried to cope was by setting all these topics, one by one, to “normal” so I don’t have to check my activity pointlessly.

Id really prefer not having to check the activity unless its something Im actually interested in. Is there any other way to address the issue for example through use of the country tags to identify which posts I want to see and which I dont? I realize its a vain hope that HO will carve off Italy into its own category at this point

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Tags are only usable if people apply them when they start a topic, which they don’t always.

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I mute the posts that don’t interest me, as they crop up.

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You can also just mute any thread that isn’t of interest to you. I do it all the time.

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thats what I do. I am glad for the sake of the board and avid Spanish eaters that Spain is so active, But its annoying to have to continually check my alerts and find they are about topics I need to mute instead of the Italy, NYC or other topics I’m hoping to see.

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You could just turn off the alerts entirely if they bother you that much.

I don’t get any alerts — I just read the threads I follow & that show up as unread on my start page :woman_shrugging:t3:

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same here, expect i do have alerts on for when i receive DMs.

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I can’t think of a single DM here that could possibly be important or urgent enough to warrant an alert.

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there are a lot of things i can’t imagine that other folks can… and the opposite as well.

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I have a very lively imagination. In my case it’s still a ‘no.’

YMOV :woman_shrugging:t2:

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@jenkalb

  • Go to your User Profile > Preferences > Notifications .
  • Look for: A section called Saved Searches.
  1. Enter your keyword.
  2. Use search operators to restrict it to a category. For example, if you want to find the word “Italy” in the “Europe” category, you would enter: Italy #europe
  3. Select how often you want to be notified (e.g., “Immediately” or “Daily”).
  4. Click Save.
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