Subscribe to Comments - UNCHECK BY DEFAULT

One of the most popular plugins for WordPress is subscribe to comments and for good reason it is a great plugin. For those of you who have been living under a rock (why do people use that saying? no one lives under a rock) Subscribe to comments allows you to add a checkbox to your comments form so that people can get notified via email when a new comment has been made. There are a couple of problems with the plugin however.

For one thing if you are a larger site then you may become blacklisted as a spammer if tons of people check the box and a ton of emails go out simultaneously to all of them at once. That is obviously not good. The other reason I don’t like this plugin is all of those freaking annoying sites that seem to think leaving the box checked by default is a good idea. WELL IT ISN’T A GOOD IDEA! Don’t do that, I just got an email last night from a blog who does this very thing. I didn’t want to be notified by email of follow up comments and my biggest annoyance is that the post was from 2 months ago!

Please all of you bloggers leave the box unchecked by default otherwise I hope no one comments on your stupid blog.

August 13, 2007 | Filed Under Wordpress Plugins 

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2 Responses to “Subscribe to Comments - UNCHECK BY DEFAULT”

  1. Michael Fultz on August 15th, 2007 1:12 am

    I agree.. I’ve got enough crap in my email box.. I don’t need follow-up comments…

  2. Subscribe to Comments - Remarks from the Creator on August 17th, 2007 12:25 pm

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