Thread:Rspeer/@comment-22439-20150902064136/@comment-5650583-20150902161035

Rspeer wrote: This is a case where I think the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Someone at Wikia designed an interface for email preferences that gives a very small list of types of e-mail that you will receive, and lets you exclude things from that list.

Someone else thought it would be a great idea to start emailing out their blog, which doesn't fit into those categories or even the claim about how the email address would be used. As far as I can tell, you cannot specify that you don't want this, not even by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link, because it just takes you to that first interface.

Why am I telling you this? Well, your welcome-bot got involved, sending a message on your behalf as if you read or cared what I posted, and sending me yet another meaningless e-mail. Don't send a bot to do a person's job. We all get emails for new blogs on CC and important updates in general. But you only get the new blog announcement once. You can  also go to your Followed page to change what you get updates on.

As for the welcome messages, it would be impossible/impractical for an actual person to write a welcome message for every person who joins Wikia.