You would think if you are interested enough in a topic to leave a comment, that would mean you are interested enough to be “watching” the topic (and receive notifications).
You currently have to manually set “watching” after commenting in a topic to receive notifications. Automatic settings only seems to set “tracking” with no notifications. Bit annoying to have to manually set “watching” for topics you are interested in. I would prefer to manually disable “watching” after commenting.
When you make a topic, it’s automatically set to Watching.
When you post in a topic, it’s automatically set to Tracking.
Watching means you’ll get a notification for every reply in a topic.
Tracking means you’ll get notifications anytime someone replies to you in a topic. You’ll also see a nice little counter next to the topic to let you know how many messages you are behind (instead of getting a notification for each reply).
This is the default settings currently.
We are not going to change the default for 300k+ users to watching. Users would be bombarded with notifications and this would force 300k+ users to swap it back to the default of tracking.