By default, all accounts in Answers are set to Autowatch. When Autowatch is enabled, you will be added as a watcher to any page you create or edit. As a watcher, you will receive email notifications when the "watched" page is changed. If you don't want to receive these email notifications, you have the following options:
- Turn Autowatch off (you won't be automatically added as a watcher on future pages, but this will not affect current pages you are watching)
- While logged into Answers, click on your picture or avatar in the upper right corner
- Select "Settings"
- Click on the "Email" tab
- Click on "Edit" button at the bottom
- Uncheck "Autowatch"
- Click on the "Submit" button.
- Remove yourself as a watcher from multiple pages
- While logged into Answers, click on your picture or avatar in the upper right corner
- Select "Watches"
- The list of pages you are currently watching appears.
- Click on the "Stop Watching" link to the right of the Page name to stop watching that page. (the page will disappear from the list).
- Remove yourself as a watcher from a single page
- Bring up the page that you are watching (you must be logged into Answers)
- Click on Watch in the toolbar in the upper right.
- Uncheck the "Watch" box.
If you want to add someone else as a watcher to a page: http://junk.com/somejunk
- Log into Answers and navigate to the page
- Select the Tools menu
- Select "Manage Watchers"
- You will now see a list of current watchers.
- In the field before the Add button you can put in the person's netid to bring up a list of matching users or begin typing their full name to bring up a list of matching users.
- Select the user that you want to watch the page from the list.
- Click on the "Add button.