Inline comments - how to no spam everyone

Mick Davidson_o2ws6w

Hello,

I've added some inline comments to a page that are notes to myself. However, when I do this, and even though I use @<myusername> to direct the comment to myself, everyone who's edited the page gets notified. (But I don't!)

Is this intended behaviour, and if so, how can I stop it happening?

I'm a tech writer and need to be able to add notes to the developer-created content that I'm reviewing and will use in our client docs.

Also, whilst I love inline comments, we seem to have lost the ability to grab content and use it in a comment at the bottom of the page. Which is a bit of a loss IMO.

We're using Sever 5.9.9 running Chrome latest.

Cheers.

Rob Woodgate

Hi Mick,

This is not you spamming everyone, it's intended functionality.  When you create, edit or comment on a page you are automatically set to "watch" the page.  When someone else edits or comments that page all of the "watchers" get notified.  The Watching page on Confluence help should give you all of the information you need.

You can manually toggle watching or unwatching a page by clicking the Watch button on the top right (it'll actually say Watching if you're already watching the page).

On a side note, if someone is following you, they'll also get notified when you comment on things.