For some reason, starting this morning, every time I post in a thread tracking for that thread is automatically turned on and I end up flooded with unwanted alerts.

Is this a new feature?  An unintended glitch?  At the moment I have to go back and manually turn of tracking for every thread I post in -- if there's a way to turn this off globally can someone please point me towards it?  If it's a bug, can someone please give it some urgent attention?

I just got that too...in fact, I will probably be tracking this topic

same thing here, very annoying.

OK, this is officially driving me batty.

Any comment from staff?

The alert just says New Comment - but if you go to your homepage, you'll see the list of threads.

Correct, I am not tracking those threads, so get off my back, tracking alert gremlins! :-)

Personally I think it's the right way round.

 In English, please?

 me too +1

I always track the threads I post in - so having tracking automatically switched on  whenever you post seems to me to be the appropriate default setting.

Crazy!

This tracking funny!

It's not doing that for me. So it's not a new setting, I think.

[edit uh-oh, I spoke too soon]

It's OK as an option for those who want it, but I don't care for it so I'd really like a way to turn it off.

It is a new feature.

When you post to content, you will auto track it.  It means you are involved in the discussion.  If you no longer want to track, scroll down to the comment box and un-check "Tracking".  If you do post another comment, you will once again auto track.

I have to do this for every thread I post in?

Can we please have a master setting that allows us to have it behave the way it used to, while still allowing us to selectively track users and threads?

Hmmm, I dont like this much.....

I would think most people don't want to get bombarded with the tracking messages.  It should be set to off as a default.

Kohai, PLEASE STOP the autotrack.  THANKS!