• Display Badges: If you select Yes, the badges you earn will show on your profile page, as well as on a small profile preview when users hover over your profile image.
   
• Display Level: If you select Yes, your current level will show on your profile and next to your username when you post. It reflects your expertise from Academy and/or Community.
   
• Auto-Follow Posts: If you select Yes, a post will automatically be followed when you reply on the thread
  • From there, your notification settings (below) apply: if you subscribe to emails for new replies, you will get email updates of new replies. 
  • You can also find all the posts you’ve followed under your Profile Dropdown Menu in the upper right corner and this link. 
     
• Display Number of ‘New’ Comments: This optional setting is off by default. If you enable it, you will see an additional tooltip in the activity feed indicating how many new posts are on that thread since when you last viewed it. It’s helpful for when you’ve replied to a thread and can see whether anyone else has replied since you last visited the community. 

  

   

• Allow Private Messages: Choose whether you want to allow others on the community to message you directly. 

  Note: Admins can still send you private messages even when this setting is disabled.

When enabled, each of these notifications sends you an email. They are enabled by default, but you can turn them off to unsubscribe to one or wall of these notifications. See below the image for details on each.

• Replies: Choose whether you want to receive emails when others reply to your posts and those you follow (details below).
  • By default, you will only be notified of the first new reply since the last time you viewed the post. You will not be notified of subsequent replies. 
  • Alternatively, you can choose to be notified of every new reply on the thread. 
     
• Forums: Choose whether you want to receive emails for every new post (replies excluded) in the forums you follow (details below).
   
• Answers: Choose whether you want tor receive emails when a reply is marked as the answer on a question you follow.
  • By default, questions you post will be auto-followed. You can also follow other posts via the Auto-Follow Posts setting (General settings above) or individual posts (details below)
     
• Private Messages: Choose whether you want tor receive emails when you receive a private message (option to disable messaging in General settings above).
   
• Campaigns: Choose whether you want to receive email updates on Community news like hackathons, events, and important updates.

When logged-in, you will see these types of notifications in the Notification Center:

• Replies to posts you follow.
• Forums: New posts in Forums you follow.
• Answers: Best answer marked on posts you follow. 
• Mentions: Someone @mentioned you in a post or reply.
• Private messages: Someone sent you a private message (see General Settings for controls). 

The only way to customize what you see in the Notification Center is to follow/unfollow forums and posts.

• If you follow a forum, you will see notifications of each new post in that forum. (Also applies to the Updates blog)
• If you unfollow a forum, you will not see notifications.

You can choose to follow any individual post’s thread by clicking on the star icon and Follow button at the bottom of the post. 
 

Auto-Follow Options

• Posts You Create: By default, you will follow any thread initiated by a post you created. You can choose to unfollow on the post. 
• Posts You Reply To: Under General Settings (details above), you can enable/disable an auto-follow of posts you reply to. This setting is enabled by default.