Definitely understandable Adrienne. While trying to add some flexibilty sometimes we need to take a step back in order to keep going forward (I know, an old cliche <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> ). Luckily this doesn't happen to often. With this feature, it does allow others to get emails about a thread even if they didn't start it. So, that's a plus.
The reason the option to have replies to your post was removed is that it couldn't really work with the new feature. If you added that checkbox and then also added it to your favorites then on certain posts you would get duplicate emails. One for a reply to your post and one for a new post in the thread. And with no way to stop getting replies to your own post it was very limiting.
Again we'll definitely improve upon this but in order to do so we'll need to get some feedback after users have used the new method. This is something that's been asked for quite a bit and is a pretty old feature request that we wanted to put in. Eventually we'll get to the point where we should be able to have this flexible enough to fit everyone's needs.
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Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer
