MyrddinE wrote:
Talvieno wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2017 7:56 am
it discourages discussion.
I don't see why that's so. Link to the discussion thread. Organize it similarly to the monthly creative submissions... a separate thread for discussion. No discussion
in the announcements forum is not the same as no discussion at all, especially if you create the initial thread and link to it from the announcement.
That may be how you see it, but in reality, typically only the most frequent forum users end up posting in those "split" discussion topics, while a normal unlocked topic will often bring out even the hardiest lurkers, and tend to be much longer in length. Why? I don't really know, if I'm being honest. It could be any number of factors. I have suspicions as to why this phenomenon occurs, but it's all just speculation.
On close inspection, it seems the code for sending emails is (as I should have expected) in the database's php - and therefore not somewhere I'm capable of accessing. Your best bet is to set up a simple email filter and disallow any emails from the forums with the subject "Topic reply notification". New topics are marked with "New topic notification", so you should be able to have your email service differentiate if it has any sort of filters. I typically use Gmail, and setting something like that up in Gmail is quite simple, taking all of two minutes to enact.