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Do you have your notifications enabled in the Settings tab of your account? If you click on your account name and select Settings, on the General tab underneath the Writing and Privacy sections should be the notification section to choose what to enable.
w-what, why is this disabled lol
I have had reply notifications off on reddit due to the pedantic, combative, "talk at you" atmosphere that metastisized over the years - so I was pleasantly surprised.
IMO - the first thing you should do with new software or services is go over the settings because the defaults are likely not for your benefit.
Opt-in philosophy > opt-out. You want it? You enable it.
what is this "talk at you" atmosphere?
and i know that you should check the settings but i'm just a bit dumb and, while i know it, i don't always do it, because i forget :) but yeah i've always known that's best practice.
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@dannekrose
Checking that the settings aren't going to own your firstborn is a should task, but I'm lazy too. :D
There's probably already a common term for this, but I use that terminology.
"Talking at you" instead of "talking to you" is where a responding comment isn't necessarily off topic, but it's also not directed at you. "Talk at you" style commenting is purposed to leverage what you've said for pushing an agenda, or as a writing prompt - often due to where your comment is positioned. Any response which doesn't coincide with the user's agenda doesn't receive any sort of organic response.
It seemed that "talking at you" grew to be the general mode of conversation on reddit as it grew too big. Organic conversations rarely occur because people end up just shouting their opinion into the void, competing for visibility by hanging their agenda on the most visible and tangentially relevant comment in a thread, or just plain shitposting the same dumb thing that is likely to generate imaginary internet points.
Hope that makes sense. heh