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Accidentally tapped Alert while scrolling (Original Post) MANative Thursday OP
Sending an alert is a multi-step process EarlG Thursday #1
Thanks for the clear concise answer. I've done that a couple of times myself. Walleye Thursday #2
Awesome - didn't do anything beyond the original errant tap MANative Thursday #3
I do that periodically, never to the second step fargone Thursday #4
I've done that by accident. murielm99 Friday #5

EarlG

(23,034 posts)
1. Sending an alert is a multi-step process
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 12:58 PM
Thursday

You have to click the "Alert" button, select a rule violation from the list, and then finally click the button to send the alert. If you didn't go through the full process, no alert was sent.

fargone

(393 posts)
4. I do that periodically, never to the second step
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 02:20 PM
Thursday

I also frequently hit the delete X when trying to open a thread. Bad thumbs.

murielm99

(32,078 posts)
5. I've done that by accident.
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 12:05 AM
Friday

No harm done. I have alerted on the wrong post a couple of times as well.

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