Not sure this is the place to post this... I notice that Inbox notifications (in my case, over a comment I left) on a question that was deleted - still show up - even though the question was ultimately deleted. Should not these inbox notifications be deleted as well ? Example: the inbox notification below refers to a question deleted weeks ago
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Lets start with a life-like scenario.  User A receives an offensive comment in his inbox from the OP of a question. A then clicks on the notification in order to flag the offending comment. A mod sees the flag and deletes the comment. Shortly after, the question is also deleted. Because A clicked on the notification in the inbox, that notification is still in A's inbox, with the offensive part of the comment still visible. Edit: The flag was marked helpful because the post was deleted, not because the comment was deleted by a mod.  Please note that although the behaviour of the notifications is as it is supposed to be, this does not fix the possible problem of such notifications &quot;hanging around&quot;. User A can't get rid of that comment in any way, and it may be a long time before it is flushed out by new messages. This issue is mentioned in  but it is supposed to be that comments on a post that you own can hang around, not on someone else's post.  is speaking about comments which have not been read and this . To me this seem like an important issue. To have to see an offensive message every time you open your inbox is not a good thing. I can think of two ways in which this problem can be avoided:  Make sure notifications for deleted comments don't hang around (this I'm sure is the easier option) Allow users to delete unwanted notifications (this could be useful, as this would also allow users to remove notifications that they are not interested in, or even just to keep their inbox uncluttered. It would most likely be hard to implement, though.)  What are your thoughts on this?
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My question is similar to   I believe this would be useful in the scenario if I upvote a question or answer... and the OP changes it where you no longer think it deserves the up vote you have bestowed upon it.  For example, I upvoted an answer, because I thought it was a great answer... then the OP changes it to add a bunch of stuff that I no longer think makes it a great answer. How am I notified of this change?  I know you can rollback use roll back, but how do you know it was edited without getting a notification!?  I haven't seen any meta asking this question, but if one exists please link it and I will remove this question!    EDIT:   @JoshC brings up a valid point... where not everyone has time to go through all the notifications... but why can their be an option under account preferences to turn this feature on or off?
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Meanwhile, in August 2009  as reason for comment flagging, and the comment flags show in the 10k tools. And  is on its way. Hence: I don't care for this request myself anymore. An explicit [status-declined] would be fine.    What about being able to set comments to auto-expire? Or, alternatively, set a comment to be removable by the author of the question or answer one comments on?  This way the communities would allow for some personal or funny comments (even like "Thanks") without those comments littering the sites forever. Or, when the original author is allowed to clean up, then comments that have been taken care of by editing the question or answer, could be removed.  Why?  As, , there's no way to send a personal message to other members, I find myself abusing the comments like some "poor man's private messaging system". I try to refrain from things like "Thank you", but sometimes I do want to point out something to someone. After a while (hours, days) I then  to remove them (hoping that no-one actually replied to them with another comment, like "Thanks, fixed it").  Like :    (I don't find this feature request very important (at all), I am quite impressed by what's been given us already, and I doubt there's a way to implement it without making things too confusing. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to keep things tidy and clean. Still, I wanted to share it, just in case someone comes up with something very clever...)
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We're considering adding favorite notifications to the global inbox, and are looking for feedback on the idea (as we're not completely sold on it).  But first, some history.  Favorites are kind of like bookmarks, in that they're kept in a handy centralized place.  They also follow you across browsers.  Ok, ok... "bookmarks, on the internet" is not the most compelling feature, but Favorites also opted you into notices for those questions as if you were the owner (edits and new answers, at least).  This was probably the most confusing part (though a  feature) of the old envelope behavior judging by erroneous bug reports, so a way to opt out of this .  Now, favorite updates go nowhere.  But we could* put them into the inbox.  Here's how we envision this feature working:   Every current user has their "notify me on favorite changes" preference cleared (new users start with it cleared). The first time someone favorites a question, they're prompted to opt-in to favorite notices. Whenever a question is commented on or answered (or, possibly, edited) a new notice is pushed into the inbox of users who have favorited it, and have opted in.   Opt-in would be per-site, and it would remain possible to opt-out from your profile page.   This is not a final design, but the basic idea is correct  As I mentioned above, we're not 100% sold on this idea.  We've had a policy to date that nothing goes into the inbox that isn't specifically targeted at a user; this would be tweaking that policy.  *We could also put changes into their tab on the user page, but that reduces their visibility.
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At the moment SE shows us current voting results, a notification for new answers and comments, etc., instantly. However, it doesn't show us when a post is deleted.  Please notify us also when a post is deleted. Then I don't have to type a (long) comment, only to notice the post got deleted in the meantime.
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I realise that there is other questions out there about the  (First open one I found is ), but this is marked .  I often get the below issue where it will notify me about comments on my  (in this case what appears to be the user re-writing after deleting their comment) that no longer exist.  Also, occasionally, I see comment snippets with text that doesn't match what is on the page when I view it.  Let me know if I should be trying to edit that one to remove the tag indicating that it has been fixed, and add the above as another answer.
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I ask partially in relation to , but also for my own use;  My question is, if I leave a comment on a question or answer that is subsequently deleted, does the (non-10k) poster get a notification, if they arrive on the site after the content has already been deleted? And if so, can they then view the content?  I often leave what I hope are helpful comments when I flag content for deletion, especially for borderline spam and for non-answers. Very often, the user won't return to the site before the content is deleted, though.  So, is this practice at all helpful to the OP?
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I have a chat room and I was wondering why there are no notifications in the notification/inbox like the ones we get when we receive response to our questions?  Can the notifications be received only on desktop?
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Is there any facility to clear inbox message? If I want to delete some of the messages from inbox, then is it possible?
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If a user posts a message in chat that links directly to another chat message like  12345689: You smell funny!  The chat rightly highlights message 12345689 when you hover over User: You smell funny!  If the user or a moderator deletes the You smell funny! message, the text changes to (removed), which again is expected.  However, hovering over (removed) still highlights the previously referred-to message, in this case 12345689.  I have to assume this is unintentional behavior for a message that is ostensibly deleted.
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This happened to me twice. Someone flags my question as duplicated and only when I visit the question I notice the comment. Before I had no proof, but today I have *evil laughter*.  This is the notifications:        I count 4, remember this number.        Lets see... umm... 1, 2, 3... 5! HA! So, there are 5 comments and one of them (the one that flagged the question as dupe) didn't get into my inbox. So, is this by design or I really should get notified?  If this is by-design, I disagree.  Note to self: I suspect other canned comments doesn't reach the OP, like the custom close reason.
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I have an inbox item but it looks like the person who answered the question and made response comment deleted his answer. Is there a way to see his/her id? I can see only part of the text in my inbox. Can I see it completely? I wanted to let the poster know that his answer was working! Not sure why he deleted it. Here's what I see in my inbox:  comment on Delete consecutives values in ArrayList of Int &quot;Give it a try... That's called twice because I'm already at the beginning of the next ran...&quot; on
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After reading this question:  I think the reason for deleting all comments is when so much of them are rude or offensive.  But this question:  didn't have any rude or flagged comments so why are all comments deleted in it?
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I'm getting this notification: "Congrats, you've gained the privilege – talk in chat and 2 other privileges learn more." However, I only have 11 reputation and I cannot talk in chat since this requires 20.  Checking "show removed posts" does not show any downvotes but even if this was the case I would not expect to get the notification. Note that if i remove the notification (click on the X) and click again on my username I get the notification again.  Is this a bug?
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Usually when answer gets deleted directly (i.e. not as side effect of its parent question deleted) it says "deleted by [name here] [time stamp]". Plus, it always leave a revision.  However, I just stumbled over  on Stack Overflow:        Weird, don't you think? Looking in the , nothing strange in there and nothing strange in  as well.  Finally, the last straw... :        Another thought was maybe some automagical conversion to comment, but no such comment exists.  Can anyone shed some light over this phenomenon?
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Just noticed this:  Someone @replied to me in a question which appropriately showed up in my feed.  I go to click on that notice in the feed, and it presents me with "Loading the question failed."  I'd show a picture, but I don't think that it's entirely relevant - I believe it's reproducible if an answer is posted, someone makes a reply, the answer is removed, then that someone else goes back in the feed to try and revisit the post.  Alternatively, why not synchronize the interface between what a 10K user sees on the site, and what they see in the app?  As a 10K user, I would expect to see deleted questions and answers.
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I recently filed what I initially thought was a bug, but was mostly user error here on Meta, and tweeted about it. Once it was pointed out to me that it was user error about 2 hours after I posted it, I deleted the question.  I've just been awarded the  for that deleted question, which while nice from a badge point of view feels fraudulent, as most people would see the question as a broken link: