Get rid of notifications

Recently I have been plagued with forum notifications in my email inbox. These are "new topics" that have nothing to do with me, and I don't want to know about them. The same stuff comes up on the forum when I click the avatar button.
I guess I have done something stupid by accident and it's driving me nuts.
How do i get rid of this junk?

Click on avatar in top right, click person icon, click preferences. Email drop down, select never on the options

THANKS!!

I think I might know where the real problem lies. Right now I'm happy to say "never" to everything but I see one bit that says

"or when there is new activity in my watched categories, tags or topics"

I don't mind getting email notification of activity on threads I have actually participated in but maybe I have declared my hand in "watched categories" when I shouldn't have. Do you know anything about that?

Visit

to get your list of watched and tracked topics and adjust the notification level for topics you no longer wish to receive notifications for by setting it to normal:

from the timeline

or from the button at the bottom of the topic:

Is there any way to do this en masse? That is to say, maybe dozens of posts at a time?

Thank you, gentlemen. My inbox is looking a lot better.

This is a very old thread, and it is already solved

Come off it, it's only 24 days old. You must be very very young to think that is old. Or maybe you are a Linux programmer.

Thanks. I'll add that one to my collection.

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