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Answer text doesn't correspond with notification text in followed question. Expected behaviour?
In a followed question, I noticed the notification and checked the answer - both after the fact by 7 minutes I noticed a discrepancy:
Is this expected behaviour if a question's been edited within the ...
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Is the question asker notified of updates to answers without explicitly "following" that answer?
This certainly never used to be a thing, but I'm wondering if this behaviour has changed with the "increased notifications" - without the OP having to explicitly "follow" that ...
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Notification for specific user's answers [duplicate]
I know that if I follow a question, I am notified if the question receives an answer. I am also notified for every single comment, edit, close, etc.
I see some users who are actually good contributors....
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Cannot see an answer to my own question for which I received a notification
On December 20th I started a bounty (the very first bounty I have ever started) on my own question at this link and then I went on holidays.
During the bounty period I would swear I received a ...
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Do comment style notifications to @user work in answers too? [duplicate]
I would like to notify another user in an answer, like:
My solution was actually inspired by @John's answer...
Will this work?
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Notification when my answer is viewed
Is there anyway to know whether OP has viewed the answer that I have posted for his question? I feel like(pls correct me if I am wrong) answers go unnoticed, i.e without any comment, upvote/downvote.
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Email subscription to a given question answers *and* comments?
I could not find a solid documentation to this question.
Is there a way to subscribe by email to a given question's answers and comments?
For example, this is a question which I answered:
Need ...
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If I edit my answer, do commenters get notified?
Scenario:
I post an answer to a question.
The original poster comments, giving a reason why my answer doesn't solve their issue.
I edit my answer to reflect the comment.
Question:
Does the commenter ...
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How am I notified that the peer review of my edit has been done?
I edited an answerer's answer, and it went to peer review. I can see my edit, of course, but how do I know whether or not it has been approved? I will accept the answer once I know that my edit has ...
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Can I see if someone is currently in progress of answering a question?
An example post that shows this happening
If you read the post above. You see that someone was writing an answer to a question, and
before he finished, someone else already posted his answer.
If you ...
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When an answerer edits their previous answer to readdress the problem, should I get a notification?
Basically, I didn't know someone had fully answered my question because they edited their previous answer.
Not major by any means...
I posted a question.
A poster answered by pointing out a bug.
I ...
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New Answers (click to load) notification bar - Doesn't appear anymore
For the past few days I've been posting answers on SO, I noticed that the orange bar at the top "X new answers has been made, click to load them" hasn't been showing anymore.
In the past I ...
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Some people just "forget" about a question
I've observed that some people give an answer to a question requesting some information from the original poster but sometimes forget to check that question. Are they even notified when I comment to ...
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Notify of any new answers daily by e-mail
At the bottom of my question is a text field for being notified "daily of any new answers." I assume this is an e-mail address field, but there is no hint in the UI to indicate this.
I have not ...
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