Is there a way to see who has “liked” your post without getting an email about it? I turned notifications off a while ago since my email was essentially hijacked. Any way within the COTH website to see?
(I’m sure I’m just missing it, but I did look around on the profile to see if it was under notifications or elsewhere and didn’t see anything promising.)
TIA! M’al
So you can have notifications on here but email off. It sounds like you might have disabled notifications entirely, rather than adjusted your email preferences? There’s no way to see likes outside of the notification system.
You can check to see if notifications are being generated at all by going to your profile:
Click on the M in the circle in the upper right
Then your user name
Then preferences
Then in the drop-down that shows “preferences” select “notifications”
This should be a list of notifications. Do you see likes there? I don’t know if they’re even generated if you have them turned off.
If there’s nothing there, you’ll need to turn notifications back on.
Go back up to that drop down and select “preferences”
Then in the drop down directly to the right that says “account” select “notifications”
You’ll want to adjust the “notify when liked” option
Then turn off email notification
Go back up to the drop down on the right that is now on “notifications”
And select “emails”
And set these to “never”
Thanks - I’ve done some tweaking so we’ll see if it’s livable! (I allow emails for PMs so I’ve opened it up a bit.) Once that’s done, though, the email is the only way to see who belongs to the like? So, once that ship has sailed, no idea? (Which is not earth-ending, just hopefully fixed going forward.)
No. The notification system is entirely separate from the email.
It sounds like you’ve turned notifications OFF. You need to turn them back. If you don’t want email about notifications then that preference needs to be set in the “emails” section of user preferences.
See “where are my notifications” here for where to find your notifications. Or go to the notifications section of your profile as I’ve described above.
I’ve wondered about this too. I don’t post a ton, but do sometimes get some likes. I get a notification about the first like: 
MsCoth “Name of the thread where you posted”
But if 5 other people like it after that, I don’t see their names.
It’s hard to get used to when other sites allow you to hover over the heart and see all the names
You’ve probably got your preferences set to only notify on the first like. You can set it to notify on every like.
Oh, this is also in that FAQ thread I linked above. Scroll down to “how do I change my notification preferences”
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for this information. I always thought it was a feature of the forum that you only get notified of the first like on a post. I never thought to look at it to be sure.
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