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I'd like the recent activity and responses pages to show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them). If I leave a comment somewhere, I am implicitly engaging in ...
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Possible Duplicates: Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own ...
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Possible Duplicate: Suggestion - notify user when their name is mentioned in comment How do I track when people comment on an answer after me (it may be a reply to me)? Or when I comment the ...
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Possible Duplicate: Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment I couldn't find a way to do this and manually doing this is not fun. Basically in stackoverflow how can I keep track of ...
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Possible Duplicates: Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own ...
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How do the comment replies (aka "pinging users") work? Who can I send an @reply to? How do I respond to a specific user when entering my comment? Will they be notified? What do people mean ...
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To reopen a closed question, up to five (5) people✝ with the ability to cast reopen votes must agree that the question is suitable for the site and cast votes to reopen the question. But: How does ...
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Possible Duplicate: How do comment replies work? In Twitter the at (@) symbol makes the tweet appear in the user page. Does it do anything on Stack Overflow?
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I know Stackoverflow is wisely trying to avoid an excessive notification system (like's facebook's, but I would definitely like to know when somebody responded directly to me. Since we're already ...
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I was once again doing some research, trying to find a better way to get notifications, and I just realized this (if you want to know how I got to this, follow this steps: 1 2 3). So, the first ...
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This comment has multiple (2) @-notifications: How is this possible, seeing as Jeff mentioned this is a no-no; Highly-voted requests of this nature have been declined; the FAQ on how @replies work ...
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Why do users use @ ("commercial at," or "at sign") in their comments? Does it actually route the comment to the name provided after the @? What is the right format of using it?
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This has been discussed at least once before but it was accepted and implemented but not the way it was originally intended. If I overlooked an already existing identical feature request, sorry. When ...
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If two people happen to comment on a question or answer, do I have to reply to them in separate comments (as below) @ExampleGuy no, I do not have one. and: @ExampleGirl I can do that. Or should I ...
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