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I have just checked and I am sure that I did not sign up to receive notifications in Bounties section. But I still received a single notification email
It is really strange, isn't it?
It happend to me that after having notification on for a post or watch it even if action was un-done i'd still get notifications about it in new replies, there was no way to get rid of them but threads died with time. Excluding a bunch.
No, an post in a topic is different, but this is a thread in a section. Let's think of how bad it would be if I received a lot of notifications about new topics there that I didn't want. Something will become spam if it is sent unwanted
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