diff --git a/src/modules/submissions.js b/src/modules/submissions.js
index 6522da65..fc9bede1 100644
--- a/src/modules/submissions.js
+++ b/src/modules/submissions.js
@@ -2624,7 +2624,7 @@
 	// TODO: manually test
 
 	function subscribeToBottomSection( submitter ) {
-		if ( /* preferenceIsOff */ ) {
+		if ( !AFCH.prefs.autoSubscribe ) {
 			return;
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/templates/tpl-preferences.html b/src/templates/tpl-preferences.html
index 7a7f2923..a82fa8f5 100644
--- a/src/templates/tpl-preferences.html
+++ b/src/templates/tpl-preferences.html
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@
 		<input type="checkbox" id="noWatch" class="afch-input" {{#noWatch}}checked{{/noWatch}} />
 	</div>
 	<div id="autoSubscribeWrapper">
-		<label for="autoSubscribe" class="afch-label"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools#Topic_subscriptions" target="_blank">Receive a notification</a> whenever a draft author replies to one of your user talk messages</label>
-		<input type="checkbox" id="autoSubscribe" class="afch-input" {{#autoSubscribe}}checked{{/autoSubscribe}} />
+		<label for="autoSubscribe" class="afch-label">
+			<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools#Topic_subscriptions" target="_blank">Receive a notification</a> when a draft author replies to a user talk message you left them <input type="checkbox" id="autoSubscribe" class="afch-input" {{#autoSubscribe}}checked{{/autoSubscribe}} />
+		</label>
 	</div>
 </div>
 <!-- /preferences -->