When you edit a page in Confluence, the default behavior is to notify all watchers of the page by sending then an email.
In most cases, this is a useless spam generating feature. Since it’s hardcoded, unticking the Notify
watchers field may be sickening when editing quite a lot of Confluence pages.
There is a hack to disable it. Go to Confluence admin panel, open Custom HTML, click edit and enter the following jQuery to the head section.
<script>
AJS.toInit(function(){
<!-- Disable "notifyWatchers" checkbox by default (on edit pages only) -->
$('input#notifyWatchers').attr('checked', false);
});
</script>
From now on, Notify watchers will be off by default as it should be in the first place.