I have to disagree with this because I think you are misunderstanding how it works. It only does that to my posts, but not to others, so how is that gamification and clickbait to users? It's a mere notification to myself for the content I posted.
To me, getting a few upvotes mean nothing but a small encouragement and sign that the people upvoted my content liked it and only encourages me to post more in that sub. Same if it was downvoted, then maybe it's simply because people disagreed with me, or maybe there is something wrong with what I posted.
And these notifications are exclusively only for posts I MADE, hence this is a notification that does not affect other users, and they will only get notifications for the contents they posted.
I still don't see who this is clickbait or gamification.
As far as I know, clickbait means - a misleading way of bringing people to one's content, this is in no way clickbait as clickbait has a completely different meaning.
Gamification, doesn't apply at all when this does not affect other users but only you, even those who upvoted my content, only I get these notifications.
Reading your message, it doesn't even sound like you are against the idea of this notification for upvotes you recieved, but you seem to either not understand what upvotes are for or you are against upvoted.
Upvotes are mean't to encourage you to make better content and show how well recieved your posted content is, if you don't want upvote notifications for the reason you meantioned, might as well completely remove to upvote/downvote feature.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree here, I don't go want to go in rounds for this.
Thanks for correcting me, but maybe you should also not leave majority of the part I said, in your following comments (ie: your definition of clickbait for example).
And there is nothing bad in Gamification, it simply helps drive engagement which proves my point itself again.
Why do I not recieve notifications when someone upvotes or comments on my thread? If this is not yet actually possible, @ernest please consider implementing this when you see this.
I only get notifications when somone DMs me, but when I make a post and people upvote/comment on it, I get no notification whatsoever....