milehighmilitiaon the other hand if you follow only the people you are actually interested in watching then the email notifications are fine to leave enabled. You get an email when someone you like watching is streaming, and can maybe catch their stream a little more often than otherwise.
What i dont get is this obsession with # of followers, since what actually matters is viewers. Subscriptions are supposed to drive viewer numbers, and asking people to disable the features that help them watch your stream more just so they can follow literally everybody simply doesnt make sense. If you want to know your stream is appreciated, then get more viewers, not more subscribers.
You realize there is an option where you can select who you want to get alerts from, right?