When will it be next week?
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Question of the week
I'm sorry to hear that you don't like the format of Special:NewMessages.
There isn't presently a way to disable the functionality of Special:NewMessages — you are, of course, free to ignore it entirely. Do let me know if there's something about Special:NewMessages that is difficult to ignore, and I can probably resolve it.
Is there a way to designate a particular thread and say "don't tell me about new messages to this thread again"? For instance, if I'm watching threads relating to the 2008 election, and I no longer care about it?
I guess the way to do that is to unwatch it. There's a link for that at the top-right of the thread.