Hmmm, there used to be a setting somewhere that you could choose to receive email notification if someone posted in a thread you'd posted in, and if a new thread had been started in a particular section. I ticked everything
This is how I know someone has posted even when I'm on the family history website
The first of those is easy. Right at the bottom of any thread, next but one to the reply box, is 'unnotify'. If you don't click that, you'll get an email every time someone posts after you. Clcik unnotify and the emails stop.
It may be that things look different to a moderator; can someone tell me if you go to a section rather than a thread, eg just go to General Fishkeeping Chat, is there anything at the top or bottom about receiving notification of new posts? I think that's where it used to be rather in the Profile settings. It is possible I automatically get notifications of new threads as a moderator while the rest of you have to select for that
Or it may be that Robert, the admin, had been fiddling with things so everyone gets notified of new threads.