Why do all users except the admin user get page creation email notifications, and how to disable?

Question

Whenever I create anything new in confluence all my team is being notified by email the pages created and changes. However, I am not receiving them.  We all have the same profile settings so I am assuming the difference has to be that they are all general confluence-users and I am an administrator.

1.  What is driving this notification?

2. How to change it?

3. Shouldn't the default be opposite? -as in admin is notified of all pages created, not regular users

Tanner Layton · Answer

Might want to look into default watching of spaces in different circumstances.  These people literally got the email to make a user and then did nothing else.  Then they started getting notifications everytime I created something.   They made no changes and I if I managed to make them watch the spaces somehow I am completely unaware of how I could have done it.

Max Foerster - K15t · Answer

You're welcome Tanner! ;)  Everyone was new to Confluence at some point and notifications can be really annoying. But they are not set to watch all spaces when being a new user, that doesn't sound familiar. But glad that we could solve the problem so far. Have a look at the app if you want, I just mentioned it because you can subscribe groups of user to updates with it and sometimes people forget which subscription they created as user of the app.

Tanner Layton · Answer

Ok, sorry for being new.  I didnt understand that new users were automatically set to watching all spaces.  So I need to go and have them unwatch the spaces as they dont need to be notified everytime something is created.

This is a brand new confluence and I basically have everything default right now.  I will also check the app, Notifications for Confluence.