Can I suppress "sombody reacted" notifications?

[Steel_Rook]

With the new Forums redesign, I've started to get a lot of nuisance alerts. They're all formatted as "Somebody reacted to a post in a topic <insert topic name>." Yes, these are topics I've posted in, but I'm not subscribed to them and the reactions are not to anything I've posted. Often the alert takes me to a post of my own I've made a week ago on page 1 of 6, just as often there will be NO new posts since the last one I made, so I'm not even sure what I'm being alerted to. In the old forums, the only alerts I got were for people quoting me, mentioning me or posing in threads I'm following. Alerts were useful to me. Now they're ostensibly spam 90% of the time.

I checked the Notification Settings in my account. They're very limited. The only relevant ones are "Mentions & My Content" and "Followed Content." There's barely any customisation there beyond "notify my via alert" and "notify me via e-mail." I don't seem to get a choice of WHAT to be notified of, so no ability to disable "somebody responded" alerts. All of them seem to be bundled together. I was hoping for something similar to Steam's notification settings, where I can manually pick to be notified when friends sign on, when they sign off, when they start or stop streaming, etc. Lots of options there. Here, I seem to have a single overall "notify me of everything" option that's just on or off.

Am I missing something? I'll admit, this forum layout is fairly new to me so I might just be missing some option or some setting somewhere. Hopefully I can filter my notifications down to just the ones I actually care about, rather than coming back to 15 notifications when only 2 are actually meaningful.

[Steel_Rook]

Oh, god... I just got a notification that "somebody reacted to a question Can I suppress "sombody reacted" notifications?" Not only is that objectively funny, but I came here to find no responses. However, I notice that the OP has received 1 Like. So THAT is what the system is notifying me of? OK, that makes a little more sense now, but it's also a lot more confusing. I guess notifications are now grouped together loosely as "somebody reacted" regardless of what that reaction is? Interesting.

[ChaosNoodle]

I think you can - but it looks like mentions, replies, and likes are all bundled together. So if you turn that off, you'll have to turn on following to get any notification of response.

I think it's under your profile > Notification Settings > Mentions and my content.

I believe if you uncheck both options, it should* stop sending notifications. Feel free to ask me to reply again, or like, or something to see if that works.

[Steel_Rook]

8 minutes ago, AubergineMist said:

I think you can - but it looks like mentions, replies, and likes are all bundled together. So if you turn that off, you'll have to turn on following to get any notification of response.

Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. I still want notifications for mentions and quotes, but not for likes. I suppose there's no way to have some but not all of these, given how they're bundled together? Well, at least now that I know what "reacted" means in this case, I can just disregard those notifications.