@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
There is nothing stopping the creator of a thread, particularly with an urgent question, stopping back in every now and then to check for themselves...especially since they would know they are only going to be alerted in a week. It is the default setting, but you are alerted to the alert times, the first whizz through.
I wasn't alerted to anything, and all my settings are on "immediate" as far as forum notifications go - but I still only get notified re: my own threads a week later. When the forums were switched over to Lithium, I went through all my settings a couple of times and some stuff just never did what it's supposed to (eg I jump to first unread on these boards, but not in groups, despite trying every which way to set it up so that I would). It might be different on different devices, but I can't imagine people would have to go through their settings re: notifications etc after signing in and going to start a thread, which is what most forum first-timers with a question would do, rather than checking their profiles etc.
Most people do come back and check, but some people don't seem able to find their threads again after creating them (so they go unchecked or we get duplicates either on the same board or a different one), and as lyndal said, others seem to be under the impression they've sent a message that will be responded to directly, so an email a week later (with a link to the thread), is probably the first time they know they've got some form of response and where to find it.
