"Alerts" and "Notifications" in your profile area might be a good place to start.
Hard refresh. Do you have anything (like JavaScript) disabled? Does this happen on other browsers?
I have changed settings in "Notifications" but I don't see the alerts tab.
I have Mozilla Firefox with Noscript running but I have fully enabled this website, the strange thing is this all started when I got the "author" nameplate.
Thanks for the quick response guys.