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Dear All,

I want to use the comment system for a particular channel as a “blind guess” form. So we post an entry, they can make guesses that we review in the back-end, deleting wrong ones etc. We don’t show previous guesses, until comments are no longer allowed and then it shows the first right answer and who submitted it. It all works perfectly (EE you have really impressed me 😊)

However, there is one fly in the ointment. Comment notifications (notifications of replies to a comment) I had assumed that if I took the normal

<input type=“checkbox” name=“notify_me” value=“yes” {notify_me} />

And instead either excluded it (I believe when data is posted, if a check box is not checked that no data is POSTed) from the form entirely OR instead did

<input type=“hidden” name=“notify_me” value=“no” />

It would auto-not-notify (hum… automatically not dong something, genius).

However, it’s always subscribing them for notification (registered/logged in/logged out) regardless.

What am I missing here?

Hi, buggles.

I’d approach this in a different way. I’d create the entry, but I’d use Freeform to manage the “comments” and then delete or whatever until you’re ready to display the “answer”

Might that be a workaround? I can still help troubleshoot the problem you’re having, but the workflow with Freform is what I’d personally use.