Hi
I would set that when an user receive a notification mail, can not see a content of reply
Unfortunately this is not possible currently but you can customize the notification email in /components/com_easydiscuss/themes/simplistic/emails/email.subscription.site.new.html.php
I have no idea what you want to remove / add but if you want to just remove the contents of the email, you should remove the $postContent from the email template.
If you just want to remove the contents, then you just need to remove the $postContent from the email template.
As for the duplicate, I am not too sure what went wrong but I am assuming that the user pressed the submit button multiple times. Are you able to reproduce this issue?