Another Question: LJ comments and email notification

[vakkotaur]

I have the option set on LJ to send me copies of followups to my posts and comments. I do this mainly so I am aware of new comments to older posts and also so if someone not on my friends list comments it won't sit just too long waiting for me to make it visible if it deserves to be. Recently I've noticed a comment to a post of mine didn't get emailed to me. A little while ago I also found that one person's followups to my comments didn't get emailed. This bothers me. I set things to be informed and either LJ's code has a bug (and LJ wasn't being otherwise flaky that I could tell either time) or else it's possible for someone to override my choices about getting informed of replies, which seems to be a Very Bad Idea. If I don't get any email commentary about a followup, it's possible I'll miss it entirely if it's to something that isn't either very recent or so interesting I keep going back to it.

Has anyone noticed this going? Is this something that some consider a feature, "stealth" commenting?

Comments

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I think it's either a bug or some sort of email glitch. I've seen that a couple of times; I'll find a comment that I don't recall getting a notification for, then a few weeks later, the notification will show up.

[aedifica]

I've noticed it in the past. It doesn't happen often, but rarely an email notification will take a month or two to show up.

[irpooh.livejournal.com]

There are some replies out there I've NEVER received! On the other side - with the last Fedora up grade it took a little convincing for my "spam filter" to understand I WANT the replies from LJ!

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

It's happened to me. Usually it happens in clumps: once I notice one that I didn't get a notification for, I can expect several more for the next couple months.