Request: Forum Signatures and Email Notifications

[Seth Dresari]

I think it would be very handy if we got email notifications whenever we got private messages, somebody posted on one of our threads, or a thread that we are subscribed to got updated. As for forum signatures (and custom avatars, with moderation) would also breathe a bit more life into this forum.

[Skeld]

This has been brought up numerous times in the past 7 or 8 years and Paizo's answer has always been that they don't like forum signatures (thats why we have customizable user profiles) and they aren't going to implement email notifications (because all that extra email looks like spam to ISPs). Paizo's also turned down the idea of custom avatars too, because they bring along whole new dimensions of potential problems.

Good luck!

-Skeld

PS: do a forum search and you'll find a graveyard full of threads on these subjects.

[Solomani]

These forums are an outlier - don't know of any other forums not having email notifications, so if they can do it, why not Paizo? Spam explanation doesn't ring true.