Vox Tip: Getting an Email Notification on Replies To Your Comments

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It's such a fun thing, having people react to your posts and rejoice with your good news. We all have felt the excitement of getting a comment because it’s a great way to know that someone has stopped by and had something to share with us. There are opportunities to give and receive comments throughout Vox, on posts and media items such as photos, videos, books and DVDs.

One option that makes commenting even easier to keep track of is our email notifications, which let you know when someone has left a comment for you. From the notification email, you can easily click through the links to read more, see more about the commenter, and reply back to that comment. Read All about Comments for more information on our commenting feature.

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Not too long ago, we added in the option to get notification emails when someone replies to a comment you made. (This was highly requested by the Vox community, so we were really excited to add this option.)  So how does it work? If you want to leave a comment for the person who wrote the post, just click on the "post a comment" link.  If you want to comment on someone's comment, click the Reply link next to their comment. This will make a check box show up that says "In reply to..." Once you click "save", it will visually indicate that it's a reply, and send a notification to the person you replied to. For more details on how this works, visit our knowledge base to read all about Leaving Comments.

Be sure you are signed up to get all of your comment notifications by going to Account > Notifications. There are two options for comment notifications:

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  New comments (comments left on posts or assets you've uploaded)
  
• Replies to my comments (replies that someone makes to one of your comments)

We'd suggest leaving these settings turned on so that you always know when a comment comes in! Read more about the options in the Account area.

The cool thing about the ability to reply directly to someone's comment is that it lets conversations be more dynamic. It opens up new ways to talk about the topic at hand, and you may find new people who have common interests because of participating in a comment thread together.

Now that you know about how this works, why don't you go and leave some comments for your friends today... and don't forget to try out the Reply option!

-- Vox Help team