I didn’t know where to post this, so have gone ‘General’.
Over the 8/9 years I’ve been on the forum I have contributed to hundreds if not thousands of threads. Some of these threads are long running serial dramas, others are one hit wonders - here today gone tomorrow.
I get alerts to tell me when someone has quoted a post of mine, or I am tagged in a thread, or there is a reply to a thread I have also contributed to. However, for the last of these, some replies to threads don’t generate an alert. Originally I thought this was because it was a thread I hadn’t contributed to for a long time. However sometimes replies to threads that I have recently contributed to don’t trigger an alert. This has caused me to miss updates to threads I have an interest in, most recently @Techniquests Sticky Digits. (J - Sorry to hear you are having a tough time if the algorithm puts you through and are reading this. Keep the faith).
Therefore, I’m interested - what is the algorithm (or similar) that determines when you receive an alert? Is it set by length of time since you contributed / number of contributions / recent views / something else?
Does anybody even know?
Over the 8/9 years I’ve been on the forum I have contributed to hundreds if not thousands of threads. Some of these threads are long running serial dramas, others are one hit wonders - here today gone tomorrow.
I get alerts to tell me when someone has quoted a post of mine, or I am tagged in a thread, or there is a reply to a thread I have also contributed to. However, for the last of these, some replies to threads don’t generate an alert. Originally I thought this was because it was a thread I hadn’t contributed to for a long time. However sometimes replies to threads that I have recently contributed to don’t trigger an alert. This has caused me to miss updates to threads I have an interest in, most recently @Techniquests Sticky Digits. (J - Sorry to hear you are having a tough time if the algorithm puts you through and are reading this. Keep the faith).
Therefore, I’m interested - what is the algorithm (or similar) that determines when you receive an alert? Is it set by length of time since you contributed / number of contributions / recent views / something else?
Does anybody even know?