This means that you turned on the "new" notification system, as opposed to the "old" notification system (terminology held over from LJ, where there's new and old, as opposed to DW, where everything's new).
To go back to getting comments only by email, not in your inbox, here's what you can do:
1. Load http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=notifications 2. Uncheck both "Someone replies to any comment I make*" and " Someone comments on any entry in my journal" 3. Save your choices. 4. Go back to that page. Both boxes should still be unchecked. Now, check only "Someone replies to any comment I make*" and save. 5. The page, when you reload, will have both boxes checked. However, you will only receive email notifications, not inbox notifications. You'll get email both when someone comments in your journal and when someone replies to a comment of yours elsewhere.
Every time you change your notification settings, you'll have to do this again.
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To go back to getting comments only by email, not in your inbox, here's what you can do:
1. Load http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=notifications
2. Uncheck both "Someone replies to any comment I make*" and " Someone comments on any entry in my journal"
3. Save your choices.
4. Go back to that page. Both boxes should still be unchecked. Now, check only "Someone replies to any comment I make*" and save.
5. The page, when you reload, will have both boxes checked. However, you will only receive email notifications, not inbox notifications. You'll get email both when someone comments in your journal and when someone replies to a comment of yours elsewhere.
Every time you change your notification settings, you'll have to do this again.