It happens one of three ways:
1. As soon as you friend someone you are auto tracking them
2. You manually check the 'track this' box
3. You post a comment (but you have the 'auto tracking' option on)
Un-check boxes 3 & 4 from the top down on this page
http://www.chess.com/home/alerts
I have random stuff popping up on my homepage under the heading 'My tracked activity'.
I have not been to these forums or tracked them, I know how to untrack a subject, you simply click on the tracked square.
Has my account been hacked or something???
Why are these tracked topics popping up and why cannot I get rid of them as they are not listed as tracked when I go to them???
Any site knowledge would be great cheers