The Steemit notification system is nice, but still needs a little work.
In its current form it was only a matter of time before somebody abused the @username mention notifications , and today was the day apparently.
Until we have some more control over filtering these notifications it seems like it'd be useful to make sure everyone knows how to turn them on and off.
Here's how it's done in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome :
In Mozilla Firefox
To disable notifications - First click the padlock in your address bar
And then simply click the X to disable!
To re-enable - right click a page background and select "Page Info"
Under "Receive Notifications" , untick "Use Default" and tick "Allow"
In Google Chrome
Just click the padlock in the address bar
Then allow/block via the notifications dropdown menu
So what can we do about this ?
Having to disable a useful feature because one particular douche user is having a tantrum obviously isn't ideal.
We could fix this a few different ways :
- Make the notification setting respect the "mute" so you can simply mute people that annoy you (simplest)
- Add a minimum reputation level before someone can mass-notify users that don't follow them back (smarter)
- Add a settings page to allow/disallow specific notification types, with a user blacklist/whitelist (best)
Do you have a better idea ? Let me know in the comments!
Lets connect !
steemit / twitter / gab.ai / keybase
Update: I almost forgot - if you still want notifications and you use steemit.chat , checkout steemwatch.com - it lets you set very specific filters and get notifications as chat messages instead ;)
Update 2: The steemit dev team is working on a fix now - from @val in the comments :
Don't disable notifications right now - the Steemit team is working on disabling notifications from accounts with negative or low reputation.
This should be pretty effective at immediately stopping 99% of the mention spam with no user input required - thanks guys! And also thanks for the support everyone, this is my second trending post in a few days - I'm on a roll and the extra funds couldn't have come at a better time :)
Update 3: Fix is enabled, all sorted thanks devs :)