Timeline for Allow more than one @name notification per comment
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| Nov 11, 2017 at 23:15 | history | edited | Donald Duck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2015 at 21:54 | comment | added | MichaelChirico | I would honestly be fine with being able to "@" two non-owners per comment. I haven't come across a situation where more than that was necessary. But it seems clear that only allowing one is a nuisance far too often, and is ultimately inhibiting the quality of discourse on SO. | |
| May 12, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | Drazen Bjelovuk | @JeffAtwood By that logic, why have notifications in the first place? Surely a user can just follow up themselves on any questions/answers in which they're interested? | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 11:55 | comment | added | user247623 | "Yes, it can be worked around by simply creating two comments." for some cases that would mean to have the identical comment two times (if one statement is addressed to two users) | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 9:51 | comment | added | Tomas | @Jeff, yet another case where I had to submit the same comment twice to notify all the people involved.. But also see the above comments for even more relevant cases. | |
| Aug 7, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | Tomas | .. and in this question I needed to notify all the answerers that something important changed in my question! | |
| Jul 7, 2013 at 20:38 | history | bounty ended | Tomas | ||
| Jun 30, 2013 at 16:30 | comment | added | Tomas | It happens very often to me in case when 2 people are commenting on my answer. | |
| Jun 30, 2013 at 7:38 | comment | added | Tomas | It actually happens often, that I need to notify 2 people! Several times per day! Like in this question. | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 16:10 | comment | added | theblang |
@JeffAtwood This question is a good example of where I needed to do this. I wanted to ask both commenters how the web.xml change worked out for them.
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| Mar 8, 2013 at 9:57 | history | bounty ended | Tobias Kienzler | ||
| Jan 12, 2012 at 8:03 | comment | added | Pekka |
@Jeff I can tell you that I've missed more interesting stuff by not being notified by the system than I've been annoyed by the stuff I was notified about. You can still ignore notifications when you see them. But I can live with the current behaviour of the system clearly telling you that it's not possible to @ more than one person - at least this way, there are no misunderstandings.
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 7:31 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @justin no, you didn't "have" to do that. If these users are interested, they can follow up themselves. | |
| Jan 11, 2012 at 20:14 | history | edited | Pekka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2011 at 19:57 | comment | added | user168625 | @Jeff Here's a case where it was necessary: hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/639/… Two people commented on my post asking for enhancements. I had to make two comments to notify them both. | |
| Sep 22, 2011 at 12:40 | comment | added | Eldros | @Jeff: people who really want to notify more than one person will then create one comment for each person he/she wants to notify. At least allowing more than one notification would prevent the extra moderation needed due to a flood of comment. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 21:14 | comment | added | Pekka | @Jeff there are valid cases, for example when a question deserves to be reopened again upon being edited after a long discussion. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 21:13 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | there's no valid case for "I need to notify a large number of people" -- at least not one I will support by writing software for it. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 21:11 | comment | added | Pekka | @Jeff there are cases where you need to notify a large number of people - and a part of them simply won't be notified, with the system giving no feedback about this. It's unexpected and counter-intuitive, and I don't understand why this is done this way. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 21:09 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood |
generally those two people are the owner of the underlying post you are commenting on (already happens), and one other @person
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| Apr 11, 2011 at 10:40 | history | bounty ended | Andreas Bonini | ||
| Apr 2, 2010 at 13:59 | history | edited | Pekka | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 2, 2010 at 13:54 | history | answered | Pekka | CC BY-SA 2.5 |