It does but each comment adds 400k emails to the queue before you, so all of the comments that happened before you unsubscribed are already queued. I unsubscribed and it did eventually stop.

I was sleeping and the constant new mails notification woke me. By then it was too late to unsubscribe as the topics was already locked, but I was only on like 60-70th mails.

You should really change your settings so random emails don't ring out at night.

Nah it was noon. I was sleeping in.

Ah yes, the non working unsubscribes of SaaS and social media companies. I prefer the straight up mailchimp type marketing campaigns with one click to unsubscribe

I used the "mute" conversation feature in GMail which at least stopped it from dinging me with notifications

You can leave the team on GitHub.

This assumes the sole purpose of that team is to get spammed

Does that not also cause you to lose source code access? That's kind of a problem for people who need this for work.