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[G] Better controls for buzz in your inbox

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:22 PM PST

Official Gmail Blog: Better controls for buzz in your inbox

Posted by Bruce DiBello, Software Engineer

When you participate in a conversation in Google Buzz, we bring that post to your inbox so it's easy to keep up with the discussion. But we've heard loud and clear that buzz in your inbox can get noisy — we feel it too, so today we're launching two features to help with this:

1) Settings to control what gets sent to your inbox
From the Buzz tab of Gmail Settings, you'll be able to choose whether the following buzz items get sent to your inbox:

Comments on your posts
Comments on posts after you comment on them
Comments on posts after you are @replied on them

2) Explanations for why posts get sent to your inbox and an easy-to-find "Mute" link
You'll see a new message at the top of each post in your inbox that explains why it's there: someone commented on your post, you were @replied, etc. We've also added an easy-to-find "mute" link that will stop subsequent comments from bringing the conversation back to your inbox.

These are just the first in series of features designed to help control the noise level in Google Buzz, so stay tuned for more. If you have ideas for Google Buzz you'd like to share with the team, you can post your ideas and vote for others on our official product ideas page.