One [meta-tag:feature-request] we keep seeing is users want [to be notified when someone **un**-accepts an answer][1], so a few questions that follow are how often should these notifications be seen, under what conditions, and how should they be presented?

Using [myself][2] as a high activity user (~6,300 answers), we see the following over the course of a year:

 - 4,110 *total* accepted answers
 - 520 *total* **unaccepted** answers
 - 201 ***still* unaccepted** answers (answers that weren't later re-accepted)

So that means approximately every other day (201/365) I'd get a notification of an unaccepted answer.  Now, compared to a more closer-to-average activity-volume user, [we'll use Sam][3] (836 answers):

 - 267 *total* accepted answers
 - 27 *total* **unaccepted** answers
 - 27 ***still* unaccepted** answers

Granted this is over a period about twice a long, so we'll say Sam would get a notice about once every 1-2 months.

Compare these counts to yours and you can get a rough idea of the counts you'd see personally,   
**would this volume of notifications be helpful, or noise?**

Too much? **What if we reduced the volume?**  For example we *could* skip notification in some circumstances:

 - Question owner changes the accepted answer to one of their own.
 - Answer is subsequently re-accepted.
 - You deleted your accepted answer. 
 - *other* cases?

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Also, how should these notifications be presented in the UI?

 - The reputation report
 - A message bar (appears at the top of the page, like the site welcome message)
 - An inbox notification
 - A new tab on your profile *only* visible to you?
 - *other* ideas?


  [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1659/please-show-us-when-we-lose-an-accepted-answer
  [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/13249/nick-craver
  [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/17174/sam-saffron