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49 questions linked to/from Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
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Stop generating "possible duplicate" comments
When a question has pending close votes, the system now adds a banner indicating that the question might be a duplicate:
But the first user to vote still generates a possible duplicate comment:
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Are users notified when their questions are reopened?
Do users get notified when their question is reopened? I know there are no notifications on close, and that makes sense because 1) you assume the user is paying attention to their open, unanswered ...
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Please notify us when a question we ask or answer is closed or reopened [duplicate]
This would go in the recent activity page.
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Could we have better notifications for questions in which we participated?
I have been using Stack Overflow every day for the past 8 years (I mean, actually every single day), and I still feel I know very little about what happened to the questions I contributed to.
The ...
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Dupehammer creates and deletes a comment, causing notifications to go out
The dupehammer is a good system. But when a gold badge holder closes a question, a comment still gets created on the voter's behalf, even though it will be immediately deleted by the system due to the ...
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Deletion notification
I just found out that one of my answers had been deleted 17 days ago. It had 18 up votes and I don't have the rep to see down votes, close votes, or whatever else would have notified me that it was ...
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Why are alerts not given to the original poster when their question is closed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please notify us when a question we ask or answer is closed or reopened
Send a Stack Exchange notification when a question gets closed
Notice that I never get an alert in my ...
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How can I get a notification when someone else's question is reopened?
Does a feature like this exist? A question has been closed, because the user must write it in a better way.
I have already an answer for it, and it would be great to have an alert/notification when it ...
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Negative notifications are also essential to feedback
Feedback is important. For it to be useful, it has to have three components:
On time,
On target,
Proportional.
To give a textbook example, when you hit your thumb with a hammer (instead of ...
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Notify OP after a question receives a close vote
My suggestion is to notify the OP when someone votes to close his question informing him the reason behind the vote. The reason is:
Most users don't leave a comment when voting to close, and most OP ...
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Add notification when your question is closed as a duplicate by a mod [duplicate]
There are already some feature-requests asking for a notification when your question gets closed, with which I wholly agree:
Send authors an inbox message if their question gets closed
Why did I not ...
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I do not get notified if a moderator closes my question as a duplicate
I asked a question in the meta of Software Recommendations, it was closed as duplicate of other question by a moderator, but I wasn't informed about it. This is likely related to this bug in which ...
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Why did I not get notified that my question was closed? [duplicate]
I posed a question on meta.money.stackexchange.com and ticked the "Notify (email address) daily of any new answers" option.
The question was closed by an attentive moderator less than 20 minutes ...
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Why does it not notify you when question is put on hold? [duplicate]
I find it impossible to track all the questions that I ever asked. If at some point my question is put on hold, why am I not notified to make changes to it unless I go that question directly on each ...
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No notification when question put on hold [duplicate]
I asked this question on a SE site I'm not particularly familiar with, which got put on hold because part of the question asked for a product recommendation which is apparently off limits - fair ...
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