Q: Why do I still get emails?

OK.

To be honest, several days ago - in the overnight hours US-CDT, ALL of my followed Content, Places & People got set to NOT following (thus, NO emails) - requiring me to manually set them all back to their Following state. Opposite of what you experienced? Maybe.

If I were you, I would WANT to get emails from exactly what I chose to - turning off the Preferences SHOULD defeat that. Again, if I were you, I would selectively turn ON Following for what you think is important. You have clearly experienced a glitch.

To be quite honest, I like to keep following those so I can see them in the "Following" tab. Anyways I don't see the emails: I set them up to be deleted automatically so I'm not bothered by them.

• Go here > Participated - then choose all the threads that you wish to be notified of with the Gear tool so that the little menu shows "following"
• be sure your Email Preferences "light switches" are turned to ON
  https://discussions.apple.com/user-preferences!input.jspa

I know a few folks that do not use email notices at all, but prefer to check one of these... the forst three will show threads with UNread messages (thanks to our pal turingtest2 for them)

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