I personally hate getting notifications. Especially after waking up or being away from the pc for a long time. I always cringe and think it's some hater or troll replying to my comment. 9/10 though it's just a bunch of likes and civil posters replying nicely. I wish it was like old.net where if you wanted to see if someone replied you needed to manually go back in threads you remember posting in and see if anyone quoted you. I think you can disable them here but the issue is with the way new b.net is setup it's a lot harder to find your original posts being everything requires you to scroll for ages in threads that have a ton of posts ... so having notifications on is almost necessary :/