Hi TheHelpfulOne,
Thanks so much for testing Echo today, and for reporting on your experience with user rights!
I am also experiencing problems with the user right notification with this release, even though it worked well for me earlier. You should be getting notifications both when a user right is added and removed, as outlined in this feature requirement:
We will investigate this issue tomorrow. Thanks for bringing it up!
Regarding your other question about user preferences, each notification category can be set independently, as described here:
However, system notifications like user right changes cannot be dismissed, because we believe they are too important. Besides user rights, this also includes the welcome and get started messages in this first release.
The other notification where preferences are limited is 'talk page messages', which now can only be turned off for email notifications, not for web notifications (because we believe they are too important to dismiss on the web).
Please let us know if this general plan works for you, or if you recommend any changes. I am sure this issue will be discussed again once we deploy on en-wiki, but we are starting to freeze features so we can have our first release in early April. ;o)
Cheers,
Fabrice
On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote:
Hi all,
I've also tested the User Right notifications that were just deployed and whilst you receive an email when you have a user right added to your account, you don't currently get one when a user right is removed from your account.
That's probably an oversight, but from what I've been told the option to opt out from any email notifications intentionally isn't available so as to reduce the number of preferences for users to configure. Another justification is that a user is unlikely to have their user rights changed too often, so email traffic should be minimal.
This seems reasonable, but for future notifications, how are we going to decide whether something is worth a preference or not? I'm thinking that anything that technically affects your editing, e.g. a notification that you've been blocked or renamed (if Echo supports that in the future) would be something that probably shouldn't be opt-out-able.
Can anyone think of any other notifications that should not be opt-out-able (or does anyone think that all notifications should be individually opt-out-able?)
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