I don't understand thinking the number of notifications a person gets has anything to do with bothering people or if this is still a message board.
You can get lots of notifications simply by being a more active poster. If a person posts a bunch of stupid or unpopular things then they're likely to receive a lot of negative replies, which generates notifications. That's exactly how a message board works.
Me, Mavric, Moiraine, BRB and a few others would get dozens if not hundreds of notifications a day if we kept them all on. After a while you get tired of them and turn them off.
No, no. I'm very popular. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore me. They think I'm a righteous dude.
You can get lots of notifications simply by being a more active poster. If a person posts a bunch of stupid or unpopular things then they're likely to receive a lot of negative replies, which generates notifications. That's exactly how a message board works.