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Suggestion: Get rid of birthday e-mails

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What I’m referring to is the e-mails your forum software sends out when someone turns a year older. Sure, it can be nice if an actual person notices your birthday and greets you, but is anyone made happier by an automatic e-mail sent by the software that drives a forum? (Or worse, getting a bunch of them from various forums you’ve visited in the past.) Get rid of them, I say.

/ Grumpy old man

     

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Noooooooo! I love them!

I’m a happy old man Smile

     
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Well, if you want to get more useless e-mail, I can hook you up with some spammers. Wink

I did smile a bit at Google’s logo being a birthday cake for me today (I use Gmail, so they know me), but that one had some little bit of creativity to it. I fail to see how a standard “happy birthday” message sent by a computer with no human involvement can hold any kind of value. If you want to keep it, how about customising it some way, and changing the message once a year? Then it could become a fun surprise (and a nice reminder that this place exists for those of us who have drifted away) rather than an annoyance. It wouldn’t have to be something elaborate (I’m not demanding a free adventure game or anything), or personal (that is clearly unfeasible for a forum of this size) but something - anything - that shows that a human has been involved somewhere along the line.

     

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go into settings, edit profile, and click the top option of every birthday field. There you go, no more birthday emails. Iv never gotten one. The site doesnt force you to enter your birthday.

     
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By the way… Happy Birthday Trumgottist ! 

     

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Abnaxus - 10 November 2015 07:04 PM

By the way… Happy Birthday Trumgottist ! 

I don’t think he had a happy birthday. It was completely ruined by this one email from our beloved AG Crazy

     
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You could just put in a fake date or not fill it in at all.

Happy Birthday

     

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We’re considering a new policy just for Trumgottist. No more “Happy Birthday” emails. There will, however, be 364 “Happy NON-Birthday!” emails each year! Grin

     
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That’s a great idea! Let’s implement it Smile

     
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tsa - 10 November 2015 10:20 PM

I don’t think he had a happy birthday.

You’re right.

tsa - 10 November 2015 10:20 PM

It was completely ruined by this one email from our beloved AG Crazy

I may have overreacted slightly, but it was a sincere suggestion. (Particularly in my second post, where I tried to suggest how it could be improved.)

I have now followed zane’s and Lucien’s suggestion and removed my birthdate from your database, so I won’t be get any such mail in the future.

     

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Well, with all due respect, your suggestion would just mean more work for those of us stretched far too thin already for something that’s entirely optional. (Yes, it’s a little thing. All the little things add up until it gets to be too much.) And it still wouldn’t fool anyone into believing we’re thinking of them specifically.

It’s not the wording that matters anyway, or even the occasion. It’s just a way of reminding people once a year that they’re part of a community. People can do with that as they will.

     
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Thanks for making a reply without making fun of me this time.

     

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Trumgottist - 16 November 2015 04:52 PM
tsa - 10 November 2015 10:20 PM

I don’t think he had a happy birthday.

You’re right.

I’m sorry to hear that Frown. I would never have made fun of you if I knew that.

     
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Oh please, no one made fun of you. Just a little general levity to lighten the mood after you’d already been given the solution you wanted.

I’m also sorry to hear you had a bad birthday, but really, this isn’t about us.

     

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