My, you are making me work. đ
Look at it this way. If you received an e-Mail notification of this post and went to the communities page to read it as part of the thread ... but scrolled up straight to the point where it says 'action', underneath it should say 'Stop e-mail notifications'.
Now, if you click on that you are telling your machine to stop e-mail notifications ... and from that point onwards you will get no more from this thread. But the instruction will then read 'receive e-mail' notifications'.
And unless you press that and change it back, you will not receive any more mail from this thread.
Think of it as if pressing it asks the machine to do you that service.
What may be preventing us from thinking it through is the fact that the message that pops up stays for too short a time for it to properly register in our brains.
Thanks for the star.