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There was an official response by then SE boss Jeff Atwood a few days after this request was posted, it's a deleted answer here. He says no, with some very bad justification, starting with “We don't believe in overly nagging and notifying people for minutiae” (an argument in especially bad faith since at the time there was a particularly obnoxious notification that you had to dismiss each time you received a badge). Unfortunately, a userscript doesn't help here, because users wouldn't know that they need them — it's highly unintuitive that you get pinged for everything important but closure.
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
Commented Jun 8, 2015 at 21:34
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@Gilles didn't know that! But he's deleted it - so it might be being reconsidered! I agree a userscript isn't as helpful as standard implementation is - but at least it's something - and it proves it isn't hard to implement!!
– ᔕᖺᘎᕊ
Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 6:17
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Note that this has been implemented now. See this answer: meta.stackexchange.com/a/356743/162948
– Flimm
Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 8:29

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