Skald:
I figure that if you don't want an email reminder for a particular thread, you're going to be equally disappointed to be logged in, see a new message indicator and click through into the game only to discover its for that thread you weren't interested in.
I don't think that follows. Honestly I probably wouldn't use this anyway - email clutter bugs me, and a bunch of emails that just say "Someone posted!" is definitely clutter. But given that an email notification these days, for most people, also means a phone notification, that means you get a ping wherever you are, whatever you're doing, whenever it is, and that's kind of the point. I see a very big gap between the threshold where I would say, "I want to invite RPoL to reach out into my life and tap me on the shoulder for this," and where I would say, "I don't care about this at all, I never want to see it unless I get lost."
There are only a couple of things I might consider getting email notifiers for if it were simple enough, but there's nothing I wouldn't want to know about when I actually have time to log in and look.
...Actually, I don't know if this is straying or not, but it occurs to me that indeed, these days with our crazy colored hair and our newfangled gadgets and whatever we're calling "music" now, the point to an email notification
is that it pings your phone, and having it go through your email, where you actually have to delete the message, adds an awkward extra step. With the conversion to mobile-friendly, do you suppose we'll ever reach the point where I could just get a Notification directly from RPoL to my phone that's only that? The kind of thing I can glance at and just swipe off the screen? I suppose that's probably getting more into app territory, isn't it?