@teotwaki Oh. Oh ho ho. This will be rich if you were following along when I was talking about the need for a filter.
Because YouTube has a filter and turns that sucker on once your channel starts getting big. With no action on my part, I went from getting pinged for every comment, then pinged just for replies, then pinged only when other large YouTube creators comment on my videos.
And that's just the notifications side. The comment algorithm also does a great job of keeping me sane.