How to Disable Vbulletin New Post/Thread Notification E-mails

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Vbulletin by default will notify forum moderators about new post/threads through e-mail notifications. However, if you have a large community and/or lots of RSS feed updates in your forums, your inbox gets filled very quickly.

I received over 100 e-mails in 5 minutes after producing some RSS feed updates in my investment community forums. To avoid receiving e-mails for every new post/thread, you can disable the ability to receive e-mail notifications as a super moderator. The complete instructions are below: both in short and longer versions.

How to Disable E-mail Notifications

Shorter Explanation:

Admin CP -> Forums & Moderators -> Show All Moderators -> Edit -> Receive Email When a New Post is Created

Longer Explanation:

  1. Open up your Vbulletin AdminCP
  2. Click Forums & Moderators
  3. Click Show All Moderators
  4. Find Your UserName under “Super Moderators” and Click Edit
  5. Uncheck “Receive Email When a New Post is Created”

Vbulletin added this feature specifically for low traffic forums where it’s easy to monitor all the threads. If you found yourself overwhelmed by countless e-mail notifications, then I hope this tutorial solved your problem.

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  1. taliluestogue said on January 27th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Hello All,
    Thought i should post this as this might help someone trying to get some percent off on their purchase. I am not the inventor of this method. I saw this on one forums sticky and was very popular just see if it works out for you.
    Here it is i am pasting the method below
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    Since several have asked me how I get my Amazon gold box quick picks to look like the image I attached I decided to post the write up that I read which shows how to manipulate whats picked for your quick picks. So here we go:

    Basically your Quick Picks are your personal Amazon Deals of the Day (DotD) that have been catered to your past purchase history.

    This takes a day+ to work and is definitely hit or miss on what is offered.

    To see your current “Quick Picks”

    * Go to hxxp://www.amazon.com/ (make sure you are signed in)
    * Click on “Today’s Deals” next to the gold box at the top
    * Scroll down to see Your Name’s Quick Picks

    Now onto the ‘manipulation’

    Step 1:
    Let’s say you want an Xbox 360, what you need to do is ‘fake’ Amazon into thinking you own something related to it, say an Xbox 360 Controller. So search for a Controller, and then at the details page do a search for “Rate this item to improve your recommendations” and next to Rate this item click on “I own it”. What this does is link it to your recommendations

    Step 2:

    * At the top of Amazon’s page, click on “Recommendations”
    * This will list everything that is recommend broken down by category.
    * Remove everything not related to Xbox by clicking “Not interested” this may take quite a bit of time if you’ve purchased a few items from Amazon. Another quick way to remove unwanted items is to click on “Fix This” on an item and then click on “Don’t use for recommendations”

    Step 3: Come back the next day and see what Amazon has put in your “Quick Picks”

    Yesterday I did just this, I added that I owned an Xbox 360 Controller, cleaned up my non-related recommendations and then today I was offered a Quick Pick of 5% off the Xbox 360 Arcade bundle: $265.99 vs $279.99, a savings of $14

    This should work for practically anything, be it a CD, a book, or whatever, just add something that is somewhat related to what you want and chances are it might show up the next day.

    Resetting Your Gold Box Quick Picks (Thanks to baboymo)

    for those getting random crap in their Gold Box deals, here’s a trick that will reset your picks to what you want.

    1. Go to recommendations
    2. Click link that says “These recommendations are based on items you own and more.”
    3. Click each product that you used to get items in your Gold Box.
    4. Scroll down to “rate this item to improve your recommendations” and de-rate and de-own it (it will save automatically).
    5. Search for a similar product and rate and own it.
    6. Next day your Gold Box should be filled with what you want.

    Note: It appears if you don’t take advantage of the Gold Box deals, that’s when you’ll start to see random crap after several days. Just reset it and voila!
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    Enjoy [IMG]http://www.sharemyphotos.info/O/K.gif[/IMG]

  2. forexguy said on February 7th, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Hello All,

    I am new here and just wanted to introduc myself.

    I have a few questions but I will first search for the answers before asking them just in case they have been asnwered.

    THanks!

  3. Johnathan said on March 5th, 2009 at 1:41 am

    You are a very smart person! :)

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  5. TonyB said on April 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Hi Everyone,
    I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont
    know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it’s somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL).

    Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front
    page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me.

    I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you.

    thanks,

  6. MarkL said on May 6th, 2009 at 2:25 am

    Greetings everyone, this is my first time posting here.
    Does anyone know where I can find reasonably priced Oakley sun glasses, wallets and other little gifts online?
    Any feedback would be appriciated.
    Thanks,

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