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    Next up: Images and newlines in comments.
    – random
    Commented Apr 2, 2010 at 9:38
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    I must say I agree with Kop that this is a totally justified feature request addressing something that is not working at the moment (I too was under the impression that both parties get notified), and it's got nothing to do with images or newlines in comments.
    – Pekka
    Commented Apr 2, 2010 at 13:51
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    How much more of a discussion board does SO have to be?
    – random
    Commented Apr 2, 2010 at 16:01
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    @random as much more as is needed to properly discuss, or follow up on, a question or answer, I would say. What sense does it make to have arbitratry limitations like this, and nobody knowing about them?
    – Pekka
    Commented Apr 2, 2010 at 16:50
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    I asked for a similar feature in [this question][1], and the answer was that it was intentional to suppress comments discussion. [Threaded comments][2] is the best they offer for this functionality. [1]: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/83392/… [2]: stackapps.com/questions/2050/threaded-comments
    – BЈовић
    Commented Apr 5, 2011 at 13:54
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    This has also been discussed here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85771/… but got just a few answers and a lot less votes. It's amazing the effect of a 50 rep bounty...
    – Aleadam
    Commented Apr 9, 2011 at 7:20
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    @Aleadam: this question is a year older than the one you linked
    – Andreas Bonini
    Commented Apr 10, 2011 at 7:44
  • @Kop Oops! I saw April 2nd and the recent bounty and I never even considered that year number :/ Sorry about that!
    – Aleadam
    Commented Apr 10, 2011 at 18:27
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    I personally think two notifications should be allowed. A maximum higher than that that adds potential clutter, noise, and confusion. But a maximum of only one adds potential clutter and annoyance. In all my time at SO, I've never once wanted to @-notify more than 2 people (but the roughly dozen times I've wanted to @-notify exactly 2 people have been very annoying).
    – Ben Lee
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 9:41
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    @Jeff don't we at least deserve explanation why it's declined?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 10:37
  • This needs to be tagged as status-inprogress
    – Kermit
    Commented Apr 10, 2013 at 21:13
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    @jeff-attwood : Shouldn't this be re-opened as this particular functionality is a very useful one. Moreover this question has been asked like 3 years ago and still the feature is still sought after..
    – Roy M J
    Commented Feb 6, 2014 at 5:32